Quite often transportation companies face two types of jobs, ones which they can plan themselves and ones which have to be done on call. In this paper we study the scheduling of these jobs, while we assume that job durations are known beforehand as well as windows in which the jobs need to be...

In reverse logistics networks, products (e.g., bottles or containers) have to be transported from a depot to customer locations and, after use, from customer locations back to the depot. In order to operate economically beneficial, companies prefer a simultaneous delivery and pick-up service....

We optimize a large country's currency supply network for its central bank. The central bank provides currency to all branches (who in turn serve consumers and commerce) through its network of big vaults, regional vaults, and retail vaults. The central bank intends to reduce its total...

The global growth of the Third-party Logistics (3PL) industry increases opportunities for providers but also increases the challenges in the business as the market becomes more complex and difficult to achieve integration of logistics. The present document is qualitative research. It is based on...

According to recent studies, the increasing demand and productivity in food commodity business has been able to enlighten the importance of outsourcing. Food industry has been found most prominent in outsourcing corresponding to the largest percentage of goods as compared to other industries,...

From the early 2000s, with the rapid expansion and increasing complexity of supply chains, the logistics literature has frequently referred to "the seven rights of logistics (7Rs)" that linked business logistics to the key strategic objectives of cost competitiveness, quality, flexibility, and...

The study aims to describe the relationship existing between electronic commerce and business logistics, highlighting the impact that such a branch of the new economy will have on the logistics structures, in the next future. The purpose of this paper is also to identify the organizational model...

Ports provide jetty facilities for ships to load and unload their cargo. Jetty capacity is costly and therefore limited, causing delays for arriving ships. However, ship delays are also costly, so terminal operators attempt to min imize their number and duration. Here, simulation has proved to...

Emerging technologies such as drone delivery services enable retailers to cost-effectively offer unprecedented delivery speed and adaptable delivery lead times using dedicated aerial vehicles for individual orders. A natural and important question arises: What is the impact of a drone delivery...