Workshop: Advancements in on-demand city logistics

11 November 2021 16:57 - By: Webredactie | Add to my calendar

In this one-day event, we bring our academic and industrial partners together. We will discuss about the current obstacles city logistic companies face vis-à-vis their customers given the available resources. The current scientific state-of-the-art will be shared by our world-renowned guests from inside and outside the Netherlands. This workshop highlights the ending of CUSTOMIZE project whose results will be presented by our research team.

About the CUSTOMIZE project

This research project introduces a novel decision-making framework to address the challenges faced by on-demand logistics systems. Having a precise demand forecast is the key success for the operation. We first forecast demand at the micro-level. The predictability of our model is enhanced by using data from industrial partners. Thereafter, we integrate our demand forecasting tool into the prescriptive model. The model provides different strategies to position resources in real-time. The development of the prescriptive model is an innovative solution to bridge data-analytics and systems operations. In this project, we collaborated with two industrial partners:

  • Thuisbezorgd.nl is an on-demand logistics provider which is operated in the food industry. Our developed approach uses real-time data and provides a planning approach for its operation.  
  • Post-NL provides home healthcare supply which is provided by health-care organizations. Our proposed forecasting model and the resolution approach enable them to improve their services considering the behavioral aspect of the patients (e.g., satisfaction from the logistics service) and promote the usage of home healthcare services.


Programme

9:00-9:15

Opening

 

9:15-10:15

Prof. Marlin Ulmer

Professor at Otto-von-Guericke-Univesitat Magdeburg

10:15-10:30

Coffee

 

10:30-11:15

Dr. Alp Arslan

Research Associate at TU Delft

11:15-11:45

Dr. Yihong Wang

Senior Data Scientist at Just Eat Takeaway.com

11:45-12:00

Ms. Jingyi Chen

Research Assistant

12:00-13:00

Lunch

 

13:00-14:00

Prof. Dolores Romero Morales

Professor at Copenhagen Business School

14:00-14:30

Dr. Niels Agatz

Professor at RSM

14:30-14:45

Coffee

 

14:45-15:15

Ms. Merel Koppen

Programma Manager Customer Excellence at PostNL

15:15-15:30

Mr. Bram Mosterd

Research Assistant

15:30-16:00

Dr. Ahmadreza Marandi

Professor at TU Eindhoven


Registration

Registration is mandatory and based on a first-come-first-serve rule. Due to uncertainties resulting from Covid situation, we have a maximum limit for the number of attendees. The workshop is open to graduate students, colleagues from university and industry. 

Note: Given that we will have guests in the Covid risk groups, we trust the attendees are vaccinated and/or have been tested negative before the event. We will comply with the regulations to assure the public safety.

Link to register: https://forms.gle/PCauFPmfcLxtktcz6

View the abstracts and biographies of the speakers