Abstract The ongoing rise in e-commerce comes along with an increasing number of first-time delivery failures due to the absence customer at location. Failed deliveries result rework which turn has a large impact on carriers’ cost. In classical vehicle routing problem (VRP) time windows, each request only one location and window describing where when shipments need be delivered. contrast, we in...

Because of continuous competition in the corporate industrial sector, numerous companies are always looking for strategies to ensure timely product delivery survive against their competitors. For this reason, logistics play a significant role warehousing, shipments, and transportation products. Therefore, high utilization resources can improve profit margins reduce unnecessary storage or shippi...

Packaged goods are shipped globally using various means of transportation. Over the past two decades, there has been a continuous increase in studies that measure and analyse dynamic events that occur to packages during transportation and handling. These data offer useful information to design and test packages, and provide protection from potential hazards like drops and impacts. However, none...

The inclusion of genetically modified maize in food aid shipments to Southern Africa during the 2002 food crisis rekindled debates over agricultural biotechnology. As the region edged ever closer to famine – putting the lives to some 14 million Africans at risk – corporate pundits, government officials and biotech s critics debated the health and environmental dangers posed by the new technolog...

Due to high real estate costs in urban areas, shop floor space is scarce most brick-and-mortar stores. Maneuvering newly arrived merchandise through narrow aisles during shelf replenishment time-consuming for the sales staff and impedes customers. Therefore, many retail chains nowadays aim store-friendly shipments (SFS). By mirroring layout of a store buildup its dedicated shipments, need zigza...