TY - JOUR
T1 - Community logistics: a dynamic strategy for facilitating immediate parcel delivery to smart lockers
AU - Leung, Eric K.H.
AU - Ouyang, Zhiyuan
AU - Huang, George Q.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge partial financial supports from funding sources, including the 2019 Guangdong Special Support Talent Program – Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Team (China) (2019BT02S593), 2018 Guangzhou Leading Innovation Team Program (201909010006) and HKSAR RGC GRF Project (17203518).
Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge partial financial supports from funding sources, including the 2019 Guangdong Special Support Talent Program–Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Team (China) (2019BT02S593), 2018 Guangzhou Leading Innovation Team Program (201909010006) and HKSAR RGC GRF Project (17203518).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/5/3
Y1 - 2023/5/3
N2 - The COVID Pandemic since early 2019 has imposed significant effects on our life. In the retail and logistics sector, the large-scale national lockdown has drastically driven e-commerce sales because the e-marketplace has become the only sales channel. Whilst the pandemic has accelerated the shift towards a more digital world and led to an irreversible dependence on e-commerce retailing, the pressure is on retailers and logistics service providers to respond to the growing demand for immediate delivery in the e-commerce era. Given the integration of smart lockers into developing a more favourable environment which potentially makes immediate delivery more feasible, this paper introduces a novel, dynamic delivery strategy, namely Community Logistics Strategy (CLS), for formulating and updating the new delivery plan in real time as new delivery requests to smart lockers arrive. To shed light on the effect of dynamic order arrival towards delivery planning, the CLS attempts to update the delivery plan by taking new requests into account in real time. Simulation results reveal the superiority of the proposed strategy in managing e-commerce delivery requests, especially within megacities where consumers are highly dense in a compact geographical area.
AB - The COVID Pandemic since early 2019 has imposed significant effects on our life. In the retail and logistics sector, the large-scale national lockdown has drastically driven e-commerce sales because the e-marketplace has become the only sales channel. Whilst the pandemic has accelerated the shift towards a more digital world and led to an irreversible dependence on e-commerce retailing, the pressure is on retailers and logistics service providers to respond to the growing demand for immediate delivery in the e-commerce era. Given the integration of smart lockers into developing a more favourable environment which potentially makes immediate delivery more feasible, this paper introduces a novel, dynamic delivery strategy, namely Community Logistics Strategy (CLS), for formulating and updating the new delivery plan in real time as new delivery requests to smart lockers arrive. To shed light on the effect of dynamic order arrival towards delivery planning, the CLS attempts to update the delivery plan by taking new requests into account in real time. Simulation results reveal the superiority of the proposed strategy in managing e-commerce delivery requests, especially within megacities where consumers are highly dense in a compact geographical area.
KW - Community Logistics Strategy
KW - dynamic vehicle dispatching
KW - e-commerce last-mile delivery
KW - instant delivery problems
KW - real-time scheduling
KW - spatial and temporal postponement
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U2 - 10.1080/00207543.2022.2073480
DO - 10.1080/00207543.2022.2073480
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85131003460
SN - 0020-7543
VL - 61
SP - 2937
EP - 2962
JO - International Journal of Production Research
JF - International Journal of Production Research
IS - 9
ER -