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Transportation strategies for dynamic lot sizing: single or multiple modes?

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  • Erna Engebrethsen
  • Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès

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The complexity of decision-making for companies buying transportation services has increased due to the presence of more options and pricing schedules for transportation. Many companies make transportation and inventory decisions in an uncoordinated way and select only one transportation mode, missing opportunities for logistics cost savings. The experimental study in this paper is based on a real-world decision problem faced by a Scandinavian company that distributes fast-moving consumer goods and wants to determine its transportation strategy. We propose a novel multi-mode lot-sizing model with dynamic deterministic demand to illustrate the cost impact of accurately modelling piecewise-linear transportation costs and allowing a more flexible usage of transportation modes when planning order replenishments. We compare three transportation strategies with increasing degrees of flexibility: two single mode strategies, where one strategy is more flexible than the other, and a multi-mode strategy. We conclude that managers can significantly reduce costs by increasing the flexibility of mode selection in transportation strategies.

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  • Erna Engebrethsen & Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, 2023. "Transportation strategies for dynamic lot sizing: single or multiple modes?," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 61(20), pages 7064-7084, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:61:y:2023:i:20:p:7064-7084
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2022.2145516
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