express parcel delivery

Recursive Partitioning and Batching for Network Design with Service Time Guarantees at Massive Scale

  • Myungeun Eom
  • Alan L. Erera
  • Alejandro Toriello
    • Categories Production and Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Transportation Tags , , , ,

    Motivated by the parcel delivery industry, we study a network design problem with service time guarantees at industrial scale. This tactical service network design problem determines primary paths and delivery schedules for commodities to minimize transportation and handling costs while ensuring committed service times. To construct a solution for a real-world instance with over 1,000 … Read more

    Robust Planning of Sorting Operations in Express Delivery Systems

  • Reem Khir
  • Alan L. Erera
  • Alejandro Toriello
    • Categories Production and Logistics Tags , , ,

    Parcel logistics services play a vital and growing role in economies worldwide, with customers demanding faster delivery of nearly everything to their homes. To move larger volumes more cost effectively, express carriers use sort technologies to consolidate parcels that share similar geographic and service characteristics for reduced per-unit handling and transportation costs. This paper focuses … Read more

    Two-Stage Sort Planning for Express Parcel Delivery

  • Alan L. Erera
  • Alejandro Toriello
  • Reem Khir
    • Categories Production and Logistics Tags , ,

    Recent years have brought significant changes in the operations of parcel transportation services, most notably due to the growing demand for e-commerce worldwide. Parcel sortation systems are used within sorting facilities in these transportation networks to enable the execution of effective consolidation plans with low per-unit handling and shipping costs. Designing and implementing effective parcel … Read more