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    Consistent Consolidation Strategies in Grocery Retail Distribution
    ( 2019) Sara Sofia Martins ; Pedro Amorim ; Bernardo Almada-Lobo ; 5964 ; 6061 ; 5428
    In the food retail sector, maintaining the food quality across the supply chain is of vital importance. The quality of the products is dependent on its storage and transportation conditions and this peculiarity increases the supply chain complexity relatively to other types of retailers. Actually, in this industry there are three types of food supply chains: frozen, chilled and ambient. Moreover, food retailers run different store formats, of different sizes, assortments and sales volume. In this study we research the trade-off between consolidating a range of products in order to perform direct deliveries to the stores versus performing separate delivery routes for products with different transportation requirements. A new consistency dimension is proposed regarding the periodicity that a consolidation strategy is implemented. The aim of this paper is to define a consolidation strategy for the delivery mode planning that allows to smooth the complexity of grocery retail operations. A three-step approach is proposed to tackle a real size problem in a case-study with a major Portuguese grocery retailer. By changing the consolidation strategy with a complete consistent plan the company could reach annual savings of around 4%. © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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    Delivery mode planning for distribution to brick-and-mortar retail stores: discussion and literature review
    ( 2018) Sara Sofia Martins ; Pedro Amorim ; Bernardo Almada-Lobo ; 5964 ; 6061 ; 5428
    In the retail industry, there are multiple products flowing from different distribution centers to brick-and-mortar stores with distinct characteristics. This industry has been suffering radical changes along the years and new market dynamics are making distribution more and more challenging. Consequently, there is a pressure to reduce shipment sizes and increase the delivery frequency. In such a context, defining the most efficient way to supply each store is a critical task. However, the supply chain planning decision that tackles this type of problem, delivery mode planning, is not well defined in the literature. This paper proposes a definition for delivery mode planning and analyzes multiple ways retailers can efficiently supply their brick-and-mortar stores from their distribution centers. The literature addressing this planning problem is reviewed and the main interdependencies with other supply chain planning decisions are discussed. © 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York
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    Solving a large multi-product production-Routing problem with delivery time windows
    ( 2019) Fábio Silva Moreira ; Jans,R ; Luís Guimarães ; Cordeau,JF ; Bernardo Almada-Lobo ; 5428 ; 6114 ; 5965
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    The time window assignment vehicle routing problem with product dependent deliveries
    ( 2018) Fábio Silva Moreira ; Bernardo Almada-Lobo ; Pedro Amorim ; Luís Guimarães ; da Silva,DP ; 5964 ; 5428 ; 6114 ; 5965