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Retail Distribution Planning to Brick-and-Mortar Stores
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Retail Distribution Planning to Brick-and-Mortar Stores
Yazar:
Martins, Sara Sofia Baltazar, author.
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1 electronic resource (149 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09C.
Özet:
An efficient supply chain is essential for the success of any retailer and distribution planning, in particular, plays a central role to that end. The retail industry has suffered changes throughout the years, along with those in the market dynamics. These dynamics are turning the distribution process more and more challenging. In such a context, with multiple possible strategies and resources available to perform distribution, defining the most efficient way to supply each store is a critical task. This research intends to give new insights and contribute to the current literature regarding the distribution process of retailers, specifically for the pharmaceutical and grocery retail sectors. The objective of this applied research is threefold: (1) frame the multiple ways of efficiently supplying retail stores; (2) formulate mathematical models for different challenges that retailers face in the distribution process; and (3) develop suitable solution approaches to solve the problems efficiently. Firstly, the planning decision that selects the different distribution strategies of supplying the stores is explored. The definition of this problem, named delivery mode planning, is not clear in the literature, and a novel definition for the problem is proposed. The features and (dis)advantages of the different product flows are described, together with the practical implications between different distribution decisions. Secondly, the network redesign of pharmaceutical wholesalers is analyzed. The goal is to respond to more frequent and smaller orders, while staying competitive and not jeopardizing the current customer service level. While the network design has been extensively studied in the literature, few works consider the redesign variant, i.e. changing facilities location, and take into consideration the response time indicator, besides costs. Nevertheless, the response time is a key driver for wholesalers. To tackle the problem a two-phase optimization-simulation approach that incorporates the trade-off between facility and transportation costs and customer service level is developed. Finally, the incorporation of multi-compartment vehicles in the grocery distribution planning is studied. In the last years, multi-compartment vehicles, which enable the physical separation of products/segments during transportation have been deployed, and increasingly used by grocery retailers to perform mixed-product distributions. In the literature, there are already different works analyzing the impact of performing routing plans with multi-compartment vehicles instead of single-compartment vehicles. However, most of the research is focused on fuel and waste applications, which impose different business requirements from those of the grocery distribution. The complexity of the loading/unloading process with these vehicles has never been studied. Therefore, an extension of the routing problem considering the impact of loading constraints is proposed. Furthermore, as grocery stores usually define preferable time-windows to indicate when deliveries should occur, and this decision impacts the possible mixed distributions, the routing problem is also extended to incorporate time-window assignment decisions. For both problems, extensions of metaheuristics proposed for the routing problem are developed.
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