Collaboration is one of the crucial elements in city logistics and it is often pursued by the
introduction of two-or multi-echelon systems using one or more intermediate consolidation …

The parcel demand in last-mile delivery increases sharply with the growth of e-commerce,
which has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The current delivery scheme …

The grocery market, especially the perishable product market is under amazing
developments in China, accounting for half of overall food expenditure. However, the supply …

This paper introduces the Two-Echelon Production-Routing Problem. This problem is
motivated from the petrochemical industry, enlarging the supply chain integration by taking …

The scheduling and location (ScheLoc) problem is a new and important research topic with
a wide range of practical applications. It jointly optimizes machine locations, job …

The make-to-stock strategy can improve the operational efficiency of urban freight delivery,
especially in a dynamic transportation system with idle storage resources. This study …

Dial-a-ride problems aim to design the least-costly door-to-door vehicle routes for
transporting individual users, subject to several service constraints like time windows …

Inventory-routing problems (IRPs) define a class of combinatorial optimization problems,
encompassing inventory management and vehicle routing decisions into the same …

This paper addresses the Family Traveling Salesman Problem (FTSP), a variant of the
Traveling Salesman Problem that group nodes into families. The goal is to select the best …

In this paper we address a novel variant of the two-level lot-sizing and scheduling problem
inspired by a cosmetic industry in Brazil. In this problem, we seek to optimize production …