DocumentCode :
695343
Title :
Managing Disruptions in Last Mile Distribution
Author :
Dettenbach, Astrid M. C. ; Ubber, Sarah
Author_Institution :
RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany
fYear :
2015
fDate :
5-8 Jan. 2015
Firstpage :
1078
Lastpage :
1087
Abstract :
This paper considers disruption management in last mile distribution of delivery items. The delivery area is split into districts. Districts, and tours within them, are fixed over a long period of time. The sequence of each tour, which starts and ends at the depot, is given. Delivery items arrive daily at the depot in predetermined sequences. While minor failures in the delivery process can be dealt with quickly, major failures (mechanical failure, staff shortage) can have severe impacts on the initially planned operational schedule. Vehicle operators are highly familiar with their own district only, and changes to the ordinary schedule should be kept low to avoid major rearrangement of the tours. In this contribution we present a reassignment problem that determines a back-up plan in the case of disruptions before delivery starts. This paper is motivated by the introduction of an electric vehicle fleet into the last mile.
Keywords :
electric vehicles; goods distribution; supply chain management; vehicle routing; delivery item distribution; disruption management; electric vehicle fleet; last mile distribution; reassignment problem; vehicle operators; Robustness; Routing; Schedules; Stochastic processes; Vehicle routing; Vehicles;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
ISSN :
1530-1605
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2015.132
Filename :
7069938
Link To Document :
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