Industrial packaging can enable efficient and sustainable logistics activities throughout
supply chains. Such activities have a great impact on a company's sustainability …

Megacities in emerging markets are a relatively new phenomenon. The size of these cities
combined with the high growth rates provides substantial sustainability challenges. Urban …

Purpose The advent of grocery sales through online channels necessitates that bricks-and-
mortar retailers redefine their logistics networks if they want to compete online. Because the …

This paper proposes a model for managing a packaging process of small products at a
production line. The aim of the paper is to determine the optimal size of a box the products …

In this paper, we address the Bin Packing Problem with Compatible Categories (BPCC), a
challenging optimization problem that arises in the context of last mile distribution to …

The advent of grocery sales via online channels means that former bricks-and-mortar
retailers need to construct efficient but also customer-oriented omnichannel distribution …

The purpose of this research is to investigate the optimal product unpacking location in a
bricks-and-mortar grocery retail supply chain. Retail companies increasingly are investing in …

Before reaching the store, products generally flow through the retail distribution system as
larger bundles, the so-called case packs (CP). In several studies these case packs have …

Packaging design is one of the potential strategies for increasing logistics performance, not
only from a cost reduction perspective, but also from a sustainable point of view. The …

High capacity utilization of space in physical distribution, such as high fill rates of vehicles,
pallets and packaging, is essential to decarbonize supply chains. This study provides an …