Time and Quantity Based Hybrid Consolidation Algorithms for Reduced Cost Products Delivery

作     者：Muhammad Ali Memon Asadullah Shaikh Adel Sulaiman Abdullah Alghamdi Mesfer Alrizq Bernard Archimède 

作者机构：Department of Information TechnologyUniversity of SindhJamshoroSindh76090Pakistan College of Computer Science and Information SystemsNajran UniversityNajran61441Saudi Arabia University of ToulouseINP-ENIT47 Avenue d’AzereixBP1629F-65016Tarbes CedexFrance 

出 版 物：《Computers, Materials & Continua》 (计算机、材料和连续体（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第69卷第10期

页      面：409-432页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Deputy for Research and Innovation Ministry of Education Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for this research through a grant(NU/IFC/INT/01/008)under the institutional Funding Committee at Najran University Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 

主　　题：Consolidation transportation supply chain cost minimization 

摘      要：In today’s competitive business environment,the cost of a product is one of the most important considerations for its *** are heavily involved in research strategies to minimize the cost of elements that can impact on the final price of the *** is one such *** products arrive from diverse locations to consumers in today’s digital era of online ***,the logistics sector faces several dilemmas from order attributes to environmental changes in this *** has specially been noted during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic where the demands on online businesses have increased several ***,the methodology to optimise delivery cost and its impact on environmental focus by reducing CO_(2) emissions has gained *** resultant strategy of Shipment Consolidation that has evolved is an approach that combines one or more transport orders in the same vehicle for *** Consolidation has been categorized in three order scheduling approaches:Time based consolidation,Quantity based consolidation,and a Hybrid(Time-Quantity)based *** this paper,a new Hybrid Consolidation approach is *** the Hybrid approach,it has been shown that order delivery can be facilitated by taking into account not only the order pick up time,but also the total order *** results have shown that if a time window is available in respect of the order delivery time,then the order can be delayed from pickup to consolidate it with other orders for cost *** hybrid approach is based on four consolidation principles,two of which work on fixed departure and two,on demand *** of these rules have been implemented and tested here with an application case *** analysis of the results is illustrated with different planning evaluation *** Result analyses indicate that consolidation of orders is increased with each implemented rule hence motivating us towards t