Quantifying the environmental and economic benefits of cooperation : A case study in temperature-controlled food logistics
| Autor: | Argyris Kanellopoulos, Jacqueline M. Bloemhof, Gilbert Laporte, Frans C.A.M. Cruijssen, Helena M. Stellingwerf |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Fresh food
Route optimization CO emissions Yield (finance) media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS Transportation WASS 02 engineering and technology Logistics Inventory planning Operationele Research en Logistiek CO2 emissions Fresh food Logistics Inventory Route optimization 0502 economics and business Vehicle routing problem Vendor-managed inventory Quality (business) Economic impact analysis General Environmental Science Civil and Structural Engineering media_common 050210 logistics & transportation 021103 operations research 05 social sciences Inventory Environmental economics Economic benefits ddc:380 Business Routing (electronic design automation) Operations Research and Logistics |
| Zdroj: | Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 65, 178-193 Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 65 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1361-9209 |
| Popis: | Inefficient road transportation causes unnecessary costs and polluting emissions. This problem is even more severe in refrigerated transportation, in which temperature control is used to guarantee the quality of the products. Organizing logistics cooperatively can help decrease both the environmental and the economic impacts. In Joint Route Planning (JRP) cooperation, suppliers and customers jointly optimize routing decisions so that cost and emissions are minimized. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) cooperation extends JRP cooperation by optimizing routing and inventory planning decisions simultaneously. However, in addition to their economic advantages, VMI and JRP may also yield environmental benefits. To test this assertion, we perform a case study on cooperation between a number of supermarket chains in the Netherlands. The data of this case study are analyzed to quantify both the economic and environmental benefits of implementing cooperation via JRP and VMI, using vehicle routing and an inventory routing models. We found that JRP cooperation can substantially reduce cost and emissions compared with uncooperative routing. In addition, VMI cooperation can further reduce cost and emissions, but minimizing cost and minimizing emissions no longer result in the same solution and there is a trade-off to be made. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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