In the future, vehicle sharing systems will be unmanned, autonomous, and electric. In this paper, we design operating policies for sharing platforms with such vehicles. These platforms must decide which vehicle with which battery level should pick up which type of customer and which vehicle...

Platforms sharing autonomous electric vehicles have to decide which vehicle should pick up which type of customer and when vehicles should be recharged, based on remaining battery level and proximity to the charging station. We model and analyze this problem. To guarantee maximum service and...

In this study we consider a pick-to-pack orderpicking system, in which batches of orders are picked simultaneously from different(work) zones by a group of order pickers. After picking, theorders are transported by a conveyor to the next station for packing. Our aim is to determine the optimal...

In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling and dispatching vehicles in vehicle-based internal transport systems within warehouses and production facilities. We develop and use two rolling horizon policies to solve real-time vehicle scheduling problems. To solve static instances of...

On-line vehicles dispatching rules are widely used in many facilities such as warehouses to control vehicles' movements. Single-attribute dispatching rules, which dispatch vehicles based on only one parameter, are used commonly. However, multi-attribute dispatching rules prove to be better in...

Factory Gate Pricing (FGP) is a relatively new phenomenon in retail distribution. Under FGP, products are no longer delivered at the retailer distribution center, but collected by the retailer at the factory gates of the suppliers. Owing to both the asymmetry in the distribution networks (the...

An upward line extension is a new, improved product within an existing product category for the high-end market. Many manufacturers pursue line-extension strategies, but they carry risks due to uncertain consumer taste, the internal competition between products (represented by the firm's...

The facility layout problem (FLP) is the problem of determining non-overlapping positions of departments on the shop floor to minimize material handling costs. Traditional methods for solving FLPs consider pairwise (from-to) flows to optimize layouts. This paper shows that these traditional...

The facility layout problem (FLP) is the problem of determining non-overlapping positions of departments on the shop floor to minimize material handling costs. Traditional methods for solving FLPs consider pairwise (from-to) flows to optimize layouts. This paper shows that these traditional...