Decision-Making for Packaging Consolidation of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Orders with Multi-Warehouse in One Location

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10.2991/978-94-6463-570-6_123How to use a DOI?

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Multiple warehouses in one location; Packaging consolidation; Order splitting

Abstract

In a large-scale online retail environment, “Multi-warehouse in one location” often leads to the splitting of a single order into multiple sub-orders. To meet order demands, retailers stock fast-moving consumer goods in all warehouses, leading to more packaging options and mixed orders. This complicates the online generation of reasonable packaging consolidation schemes. With the objective of minimizing order fulfilment costs, a bin packing conflict model and a multi-warehouse transhipment model are constructed. These models were used to generate initial package consolidation schemes for non-fast-moving consumer goods and order package consolidation schemes, respectively. A two-stage algorithm was designed to solve the models. In stage one, FFD determines the initial packing and package count for non-fast-moving consumer goods. In the second stage, an improved breadth-first search algorithm is employed, with warehouses serving as the search nodes to optimize packing consolidation and identify the fulfilment warehouse for fast-moving consumer goods. Numerical experiments have shown that, compared to order splitting fulfilment, this method achieves an average cost reduction of 30.25% and a reduction in the number of packages by 28.18%.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanju Zhang
AU  - Yuyang Li
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/11/22
TI  - Decision-Making for Packaging Consolidation of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Orders with Multi-Warehouse in One Location
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 5th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1233
EP  - 1241
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-570-6_123
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-570-6_123
ID  - Zhang2024
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