Category: Operations research
Joint pricing and matching lowered crowd-shipping delivery costs
What the study found The study found that a joint policy for matching orders to shoppers and setting delivery compensation can reduce delivery costs in a crowd-shipping system that uses in-store customers as couriers. The authors report that allowing multi-drop routing and flexible delivery delays also lowers operational costs. Why the authors say this matters…
Intelligent system supports multicriteria investment project optimization
Researchers developed an intelligent software system using network models and vector optimization to manage investment projects adaptively under multiple objectives and uncertainty.
A new ranking approach for emergency logistics providers
Hybrid decision-making framework integrating Industry 4.0, circular economy principles, and sustainability practices for evaluating emergency third-party logistics service providers.
Hybrid model ranks order pickers and allocates bonuses
Study develops hybrid DEA-SWARA-COPRAS model for evaluating order picker efficiency and allocating performance bonuses in e-commerce fulfillment operations.
Drone-ground routing lowered delivery cost in Shenzhen tests
Hybrid genetic algorithm solution for collaborative electric vehicle and drone routing with soft time windows, demonstrating cost reduction and improved delivery performance in urban parcel logistics.
Driver overtime reduced routing costs in a flower delivery network
Route-based MILP analysis shows explicit overtime inclusion and driver workload constraints yield 9.7%–36.4% cost reductions; overtime most benefits long-distance deliveries and cost vs distance.
