scholarly journals Time and Cost Efficiency of Autonomous Vehicles in the Last-Mile Delivery: A UK Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Xuan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Autonomous Robots ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Time Efficiency ◽  
Cost Structures ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

In recent years, last-mile delivery has become an increasingly important area in the global supply chain. Practically, there has been an increasing worldwide interest in developing the last-mile delivery robots/vehicles to increase the efficiency of the whole supply chain. Theoretically, several researchers have suggested that using autonomous robots brings more efficiency for delivery. However, almost no current studies consider a specific last-mile delivery activity – transport from supermarkets after loading to pick-up stations before unloading. The goal of this study is to investigate whether and how autonomous vehicles/robots can address the issue of cost and time efficiency. Specifically, this research aims at identifying the time and cost structures of using autonomous vehicles for the delivery along the chosen route – a single way from the Sainsbury’s supermarket to the Amazon pick-up station at Coventry. Furthermore, the research aims to find whether using autonomous vehicles is more efficient in time and/or cost than using vans with drivers for this route.

scholarly journals AUTOMATION AND INNOVATIONS IN LOGISTIC PROCESSES OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Woźniakowski ◽  
Magdalena Nowakowska ◽  
Krzysztof Zmarzłowski
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Process Economics ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Safety And Reliability ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

Many different kinds of automation are saving great amount of time and money in e-commerce. This paper gives an overview of the current applications and future of robots in e-commerce and discusses the various factors that that are important to choosing the best approach in ‘last-mile-delivery’. It discusses advantages and disadvantages of autonomous vehicles, questions about safety and reliability and marketing effect. Automation at earlier stages of supply chain, less visible for clients has more impact on delivery process economics.

Developing Global Supply Chain Manager for Business Expansion

2018 ◽  
pp. 5327-5334
Author(s):  
Puspita Wulansari ◽  
Yudi Fernando
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
International Business ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
Supply Chain Performance ◽  
Chain Processes ◽  
Better Than

Global competition has forces companies to continuously innovate by frequently asses and improve their supply chain processes, flexibility and fast delivery as effectiveness required in each supply chain processes. This is to ensure cost efficiency, faster delivery and in the end would lead to customer satisfaction and perform better than competitors. To be able to perform better among competitors and improving firms supply chain performance, firms need the talents who able to manage global resources effectively and understand culture, suppliers/ workers attitude and comply with global regulations. Success implementation of global supply chain has linked with talents capability to maximize manage global resources. The aim of this chapter is to discuss the competency needed of global supply chain managers to support international business expansion.

scholarly journals Real-Time Decision Making in First Mile and Last Mile Logistics: How Smart Scheduling Affects Energy Efficiency of Hyperconnected Supply Chain Solutions

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Bányai
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real Time Scheduling ◽  
Improve Energy Efficiency ◽  
Increase Energy Efficiency ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Time Scheduling ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

Energy efficiency and environmental issues have been largely neglected in logistics. In a traditional supply chain, the objective of improving energy efficiency is targeted at the level of single parts of the value making chain. Industry 4.0 technologies make it possible to build hyperconnected logistic solutions, where the objective of decreasing energy consumption and economic footprint is targeted at the global level. The problems of energy efficiency are especially relevant in first mile and last mile delivery logistics, where deliveries are composed of individual orders and each order must be picked up and delivered at different locations. Within the frame of this paper, the author describes a real-time scheduling optimization model focusing on energy efficiency of the operation. After a systematic literature review, this paper introduces a mathematical model of last mile delivery problems including scheduling and assignment problems. The objective of the model is to determine the optimal assignment and scheduling for each order so as to minimize energy consumption, which allows to improve energy efficiency. Next, a black hole optimization-based heuristic is described, whose performance is validated with different benchmark functions. The scenario analysis validates the model and evaluates its performance to increase energy efficiency in last mile logistics.

scholarly journals On the Regulatory Framework for Last-Mile Delivery Robots

Machines ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hoffmann ◽  
Gunnar Prause
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Public Traffic ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

Autonomously driving delivery robots are developed all around the world, and the first prototypes are tested already in last-mile deliveries of packages. Estonia plays a leading role in this field with its, start-up Starship Technologies, which operates not only in Estonia but also in foreign countries like Germany, Great Britain, and the United States of America (USA), where it seems to provide a promising solution of the last-mile problem. But the more and more frequent appearance of delivery robots in public traffic reveals shortcomings in the regulatory framework of the usage of these autonomous vehicles—despite the maturity of the underlying technology. The related regulatory questions are reaching from data protection over liability for torts performance to such mundane fields as traffic law, which a logistic service provider has to take into account. This paper analyses and further develops the regulatory framework of autonomous delivery robots for packages by highlighting legal implications. Since delivery robots can be understood as cyber-physical systems in the context of Industry 4.0, the research contributes to the related regulatory framework of Industry 4.0 in international terms. Finally, the paper discusses future perspectives and proposes specific modes of compliance.

scholarly journals "Sustainability evaluation of last mile food delivery: pick up point using lockers versus home delivery"

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameh M. Saad ◽  
Ramin Bahadori
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Simulated Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Home Delivery ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Optimal Number ◽  
Home Service ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

"The Last mile delivery is known as one of the most costly and highest polluting stages within the food supply chain where food companies deliver the food products to the final consumers. As a new approach in this area, currently, a few food retailers offering pick up point service delivery using lockers. This paper provides a comprehensive comparison of the sustainability performance between home service delivery and picks up point service delivery using lockers. Hypothetical last mile food models for both approaches are developed. A Vehicle Route Problem with Time Window (VRPTW) is developed to minimise the CO2 emission and implemented using the simulated annealing algorithm which is programmed in MATLAB software. Supply Chain GURU Software is adapted to implement the Greenfield analysis to identify the optimal number and the location of the locker facilities through a Greenfield service constraint."

scholarly journals LOCAL DEPOT-BASED URBAN SUPPLY CHAIN FOR LIVEABLE CITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (159) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
A. Rossolov ◽  
O. Lobashov ◽  
A. Botsman
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Study Results ◽  
System Functioning ◽  
System States ◽  
Direct And Indirect Impacts ◽  
Indirect Impacts ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

The paper presents the theoretical and experimental study results on construction sustainable urban supply chain, namely last mile delivery. Within the theoretical part we proposed to estimate the necessary number of local depots within the supply chain taking into account the direct and indirect impacts from a delivery system functioning. The indirect effect is presented with CO2 emissions. The conducted experiment has covered the pes-simistic and optimistic scenarios for delivery system states. Within the experiment along with demand attributes we assessed the range of vehicle carrying capacity from 0.5 to 2 tons. The obtained experimental results revealed the shift in necessary local depots number to guarantee the sustainable effect for delivery system and promote liveable state for the urban area.

scholarly journals Research at the Intersection of Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain Management, and Strategic Management: Opportunities Highlighted by COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1330-1341 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Ketchen ◽  
Christopher W. Craighead
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chain Agility ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Optimal Distinctiveness ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

Since the early 2000s, research at the intersection of entrepreneurship and strategic management has flourished, as has work at the intersection of strategic management and supply chain management. In contrast, little inquiry has occurred at the intersection of entrepreneurship and supply chain management. This presents a tremendous opportunity, as does the relative lack of work bringing together all three fields. We seek to set the stage for exploiting these opportunities by first describing how incorporating a series of key supply chain concepts—omni-channel, last-mile delivery, supply chain agility, supply chain resiliency, and service recovery—could enrich entrepreneurship research. We then explain how the boundaries of key entrepreneurship concepts—opportunity, entrepreneurial orientation, optimal distinctiveness, bricolage, and fear of failure—could be extended to the supply chain context. Both of these moves bring strategic management concepts into play, as well. In accomplishing our tasks, we draw on examples from how firms attempted to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic via moves spanning entrepreneurship, supply chain management, and strategic management.

scholarly journals Brave New Road

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (03) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian David Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Autonomous Cars ◽  
The Future ◽  
Self Driving Cars ◽  
Golf Carts ◽  
Cultural Shifts

This article discusses the future of autonomous cars and its impact on the society in the future. The engineering community is building a future and is focused on making autonomous vehicles safe, efficient, and attractive to use. Autonomous transport of goods will allow a complete reimagination of the future of the global supply chain. AARP’s interest is important for another reason: the elderly vote; and if they want self-driving cars, lawmakers will quickly tackle some of the thorniest policy hurdles—such as regulation, local traffic laws, and insurance. The future of autonomous cars is expected to change lives in both dramatic and subtle ways, but the ways that will be most interesting are the things that are forgotten, the things that the next generation deem useless and frivolous. Google's self-driving car is a street-legal vehicle; however, autonomous golf carts might be more practical. Experts believe that the most interesting changes that will be brought by autonomous cars will be the cultural shifts.

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