IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/lnopch/978-3-032-14489-8_20.html

Nano Fulfilment Centres in Smart Cities

In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL) 2025

Author

Listed:
  • Tone Lerher

    (University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics
    University of Maribor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)

  • Darko Hercog

    (University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics
    University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

  • Primož Bencak

    (University of Maribor, Faculty of Logistics)

  • Matjaž Šraml

    (University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture)

  • Boris Jerman

    (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)

Abstract

In recent years, highly automated Micro and Nano Fulfilment Centres have emerged in densely populated urban centres. Micro Fulfilment Centres (from approx. 900 m2 to 4000 m2) and Nano Fulfilment Centres (approx. 75 m2) are designed to ensure the fulfilment of pre-prepared orders from Urban Consolidation Centres (UCCs) to end consumers. Orders can be fulfilled using conventional or automated delivery methods, with a focus on operational efficiency and sustainability. This paper presents a conceptual model for order fulfilment to end consumers using Nano Fulfilment Centres (NFCs). The main challenges related to the design and operation of NFCs for Smart Cities are presented. Various technologies that can be used in NFCs on an operational level (fully automated, semi-automated) are identified. Finally, the influence of these technologies on the operational efficiency of NFCs is explained.

Suggested Citation

  • Tone Lerher & Darko Hercog & Primož Bencak & Matjaž Šraml & Boris Jerman, 2026. "Nano Fulfilment Centres in Smart Cities," Lecture Notes in Operations Research, in: U. Aytun Ozturk & Petri T. Helo (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Logistics (ICIL) 2025, pages 201-208, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-3-032-14489-8_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-14489-8_20
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:lnopch:978-3-032-14489-8_20. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.