Green logistics at Eroski: A case study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how logistics managers could lead the initiative in this area by incorporating environmental management principles into their daily decision-making process. And they presented a case study to show how they can turn practices into green while simultaneously meeting the efficiency objectives.
About: This article is published in International Journal of Production Economics.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 310 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Green logistics & Humanitarian Logistics.
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TL;DR: The purpose is to review the most up-to-date state-of-the-art of GVRP, discuss how the traditional VRP variants can interact with G VRP and offer an insight into the next wave of research into GVRp.
Abstract: Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system-wide costs related to economic and environmental issues. Reflecting the environmental sensitivity of vehicle routing problems (VRP), an extensive literature review of Green Vehicle Routing Problems (GVRP) is presented. We provide a classification of GVRP that categorizes GVRP into Green-VRP, Pollution Routing Problem, VRP in Reverse Logistics, and suggest research gaps between its state and richer models describing the complexity in real-world cases. The purpose is to review the most up-to-date state-of-the-art of GVRP, discuss how the traditional VRP variants can interact with GVRP and offer an insight into the next wave of research into GVRP. It is hoped that OR/MS researchers together with logistics practitioners can be inspired and cooperate to contribute to a sustainable industry.
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TL;DR: This paper presents a review that highlights the contribution of operations research to green logistics, which involves the integration of environmental aspects in logistics, and indicates several areas where environmental aspects could be included in OR models for logistics.
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...Also Ubeda et al. (2010) present a case study....
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TL;DR: This work introduces the electric vehicle-routing problem with time windows and recharging stations E-VRPTW and presents a hybrid heuristic that combines a variable neighborhood search algorithm with a tabu search heuristic, which incorporates the possibility of recharging at any of the available stations using an appropriate recharging scheme.
Abstract: Driven by new laws and regulations concerning the emission of greenhouse gases, carriers are starting to use electric vehicles for last-mile deliveries. The limited battery capacities of these vehicles necessitate visits to recharging stations during delivery tours of industry-typical length, which have to be considered in the route planning to avoid inefficient vehicle routes with long detours. We introduce the electric vehicle-routing problem with time windows and recharging stations E-VRPTW, which incorporates the possibility of recharging at any of the available stations using an appropriate recharging scheme. Furthermore, we consider limited vehicle freight capacities as well as customer time windows, which are the most important constraints in real-world logistics applications. As a solution method, we present a hybrid heuristic that combines a variable neighborhood search algorithm with a tabu search heuristic. Tests performed on newly designed instances for the E-VRPTW as well as on benchmark instances of related problems demonstrate the high performance of the heuristic proposed as well as the positive effect of the hybridization.
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TL;DR: A review of recent research on green road freight transportation is provided to provide an understanding of vehicle emission models and their inclusion into the existing optimization methods.
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Abstract: Driven by new laws and regulations concerning the emission of greenhouse gases, carriers are starting to use electric vehicles for last-mile deliveries. The limited battery capacities of these vehicles necessitate visits to recharging stations during delivery tours of industry-typical length, which have to be considered in the route planning to avoid inefficient vehicle routes with long detours. We introduce the electric vehicle-routing problem with time windows and recharging stations E-VRPTW, which incorporates the possibility of recharging at any of the available stations using an appropriate recharging scheme. Furthermore, we consider limited vehicle freight capacities as well as customer time windows, which are the most important constraints in real-world logistics applications. As a solution method, we present a hybrid heuristic that combines a variable neighborhood search algorithm with a tabu search heuristic. Tests performed on newly designed instances for the E-VRPTW as well as on benchmark instances of related problems demonstrate the high performance of the heuristic proposed as well as the positive effect of the hybridization.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive overview of the most important techniques proposed for the solution of hard combinatorial problems in the area of vehicle routing problems, focusing on a specific family of problems.
Abstract: The Vehicle Routing Problem covers both exact and heuristic methods developed for the VRP and some of its main variants, emphasizing the practical issues common to VRP. The book is composed of three parts containing contributions from well-known experts. The first part covers basic VRP, known more commonly as capacitated VRP. The second part covers three main variants of VRP with time windows, backhauls, and pickup and delivery. The third part covers issues arising in real-world VRP applications and includes both case studies and references to software packages. The book will be of interest to both researchers and graduate-level students in the communities of operations research and matematical sciences. It focuses on a specific family of problems while offering a complete overview of the effective use of the most important techniques proposed for the solution of hard combinatorial problems. Practitioners will find this book particularly usef
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TL;DR: An integrated and fresh look into the area of GrSCM is taken, using the rich body of available literature, including earlier reviews that had relatively limited perspectives, on the basis of the problem context in supply chain's major influential areas.
Abstract: Vol. 9 Issue 1 pp. 000‐000 There is a growing need for integrating environmentally sound choices into supply-chain management research and practice. Perusal of the literature shows that a broad frame of reference for green supply-chain management (GrSCM) is not adequately developed. Regulatory bodies that formulate regulations to meet societal and ecological concerns to facilitate growth of business and economy also suffer from its absence. A succinct classification to help academicians, researchers and practitioners in understanding integrated GrSCM from a wider perspective is needed. Further, sufficient literature is available to warrant such classification. This paper takes an integrated and fresh look into the area of GrSCM. The literature on GrSCM is covered exhaustively from its conceptualization, primarily taking a ‘reverse logistics angle’. Using the rich body of available literature, including earlier reviews that had relatively limited perspectives, the literature on GrSCM is classified on the basis of the problem context in supply chain’s major influential areas. It is also classified on the basis of methodology and approach adopted. Various mathematical tools/techniques used in literature vis-a-vis the contexts of GrSCM are mapped. A timeline indicating relevant papers is also provided as a ready reference. Finally, the findings and interpretations are summarized, and the main research issues and opportunities are highlighted.
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"Green logistics at Eroski: A case s..." refers background in this paper
...In fact, the literature review shows that this topic was not discussed until 1990 (Srivastava, 2007), when green logistics was considered as a relevant social and economical issue....
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...Currently, trends call for integration of environmental management with ongoing operations (Srivastava, 2007)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between green supply chain management (GSCM) practices and environmental and economic performance in Chinese manufacturing enterprises, and investigated how two primary types of management operations philosophies, quality management and just-in-time (or lean) manufacturing principles, influence the relationships between GSCM practices and performance.
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"Green logistics at Eroski: A case s..." refers background in this paper
...…a set of environmental practices that focuses specifically on logistics both from the purchasing management (Carter and Dresner, 2001; Bowen et al., 2001) and from supply chain perspectives (Zhu and Sarkis, 2004; Sheu et al., 2005), where transportation is one of the aspects taken into account....
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TL;DR: This paper presents a heuristic for this problem in which an assignment of customers to vehicles is obtained by solving a generalized assignment problem with an objective function that approximates delivery cost and shows that it has outperformed the best existing heuristics on a sample of standard test problems.
Abstract: : We consider a common variant of the vehicle routing problem in which a vehicle fleet delivers products stored at a central depot to satisfy customer orders. Each vehicle has a fixed capacity, and each order uses a fixed portion of vehicle capacity. The routing decision involves determining which of the demands will be satisfied by each vehicle and what route each vehicle will follow in servicing its assigned demand in order to minimize total delivery cost. We present a heuristic for this problem in which an assignment of customers to vehicles is obtained by solving a generalized assignment problem with an objective function that approximates delivery cost. This heuristic has many attractive features. It has outperformed the best existing heuristics on a sample of standard test problems. It will always find a feasible solution if one exists, something no other existing heuristic can guarantee. It can be easily adapted to accommodate many additional problem complexities. By parametrically varying the number of vehicles in the fleet, our method can be used to optimally solve the problem of finding the minimum size fleet that can feasibly service the specified demand.
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