Supply Chain Management: Recent submissions

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    • Increasing Fleet Utilization Through a Heuristic to Determine Optimal Backhaul Routes 

      Tahilyani, Geetika; Venkatesh, Shrihari (2019)
      As transportation costs rise, companies need to become more efficient to remain profitable. One way to increase efficiency in transportation is to increase fleet utilization through the addition of backhaul routes. Most ...

    • Decoupled Capacity with Powerloop 

      Fankhauser, Elisa; Li, Ge (2019)
      With the current imbalance of supply and demand of truck drivers in the U.S., improving driver utilization is critical to secure reliable freight transportation. The largest source of downtime for carriers is the time spent ...

    • E-commerce and the environment: Finding the optimal location for in-store pick-up 

      Alvarado, Carla; Liu, Yangfei (2019)
      In recent years, ecommerce has been expanding at an increasing rate. Many retailers are making efforts to improve their channel integration to enhance the order fulfillments for their customers. Therefore, companies often ...