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Rathi, Ashwini (author)For high efficiency and flexibility, a fleet of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) both homogeneous and heterogeneous are widely used automation products for material handling in warehouses and automated production lines. Given the layout capacity, the AGVs interact with each other, which provokes challenges in Driverless Transport Vehicle System ...master thesis 2023
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Rietveld, Mike (author)Efficient distribution is crucial in many industries today, especially in retail, where customer demand grows rapidly. The rise of online shopping and automation has led to a shift towards using Central Distribution Centers (CDCs). Retailers are part of this trend, which requires them to rethink how they handle their distribution. This study...master thesis 2023
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Hofstee, Toon (author)This research paper focuses on improving the performance of cross-docking operations under uncertainty in the context of e-commerce logistics. The growth of e-commerce sales has increased product returns and complexity to supply chains. To address this issue, this study investigates how cross-docking operations can be improved under external and...master thesis 2023
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Schotman, Hans-Pieter (author)The worlds awareness of our emissions and the effect it has on our surroundings is increasing. This influences efforts to put new agreements into place to reduce emissions and the effects on global warming. Along with the Paris agreements, the International Maritime Organisation also came with measures to achieve these needed reductions of...master thesis 2023
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Zeegers, Piet (author)This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a Truck Appointment System (TAS) in improving dock utilization and overall operational efficiency at Royal Floraholland Aalsmeer. The study focuses on the impact of TAS on dock turnaround times, truck wait times, and maximum throughput time, as well as its implications on cost. The research...master thesis 2023
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van der Grift, Niek (author)Air transport has gone from a once in a lifetime experience for the extremely rich to a day to day method of transportation for everybody. With the increase in passenger movements the amount of baggage that goes through airports has increased as well. This could cause problems for airports if they have a limited capacity in one of the parts of...master thesis 2023
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van den Brink, Ilze (author)This thesis contributes to the research of a complementary Truck Arrival Management system in order to increase the efficiency of the Liquid Bulk Terminal as a system in a global intermodal supply chain. Nowadays, terminals often suffer from congestion, despite the use of a Truck Arrival Management system. A Truck Arrival Management system...master thesis 2023
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Berenschot, Bastijn (author)Errors during truck loading at dock doors lead to unwanted wrong deliveries in logistics. Due to the falling price of RFID tags, RFID dock door discrimination is now being used for product registration. The problems that arise with the current system for RFID Dock Door Discrimination are cross-reads and miss-reads. The purpose of this research...master thesis 2023
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van Mil, Jelle (author)With routing algorithms approaching optimization limits, other approaches are required to further improve the last-mile delivery of goods. In this paper, an analysis is made of the effectiveness of nudging customer delivery windows at order creation dependent on a dynamic spatial grouping to improve last-mile routing performance. During this...master thesis 2022
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van der Meer, Mike (author)The costs for logistics has been increasing over the last few years, especially since the pandemic. This is felt in many supply chains and therefore it is important to explore avenues to reduce these costs. In this research a case study will be performed at MPO. MPO is a supply chain management company thatwould like to improve their services...master thesis 2022
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Dann Ruiz, Nicolas (author)Healthcare systems worldwide rely heavily on the efficient allocation of caregivers in home- based care. Despite this, to this day, the majority of home healthcare (HHC) organisations plan their operations manually, an extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive task yielding sub-optimal solutions. Research efforts in the operations research ...master thesis 2022
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van Dijk, Jurian (author)This study evaluates the impact of operational philosophy on the efficiency of omni-channel warehouses. Suppliers want to integrate an online order channel in existing infrastructure, while efficient integration of omni-channel operations is challenging due to the difference in nature of e-commerce orders and store orders. Integration of...master thesis 2022
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Logothetis, Dimitris (author)This research investigates ways to maximize the outbound handling and freight to customer operations efficiency based on the real data of The Kraft Heinz Company. A cost to serve model has been developed to evaluate the performance of various design alternatives deriving from the field of "quantity adjustment" as the dependence of cost...master thesis 2022
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Bakker, Lenny (author)Sometimes seaport capacity is a bottleneck during disaster relief operations. This research investigates a flexible, floating and modular seaport. This seaport is stored all around the world and when necessary it ships seaport handling capacity from those storage facilities to the disaster area in order to help with the disaster relief effort....master thesis 2022
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Fibbe, S.T. (author)Due to increasing cost pressure, disturbances from customs and an opportunity seen in reducing costs by increasing the procurement and construction in the Far East, Damen Shipyards Gorinchem is changing the requirements for its supply chain. Changes to the supply chain however not only inflicts a large number of stakeholders, but the cost...master thesis 2021
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de Krom, Bart (author)Recent developments in supply chains and supply chain management (SCM) lead to increased complexity and vulnerability of supply chain operations. Therefore, it is needed to better anticipate and prepare for or prevent disruptions from occurring. Increasing interest for the application of machine learning in supply chain (risk) management has...master thesis 2021
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Kalf, Hilt (author)Aircraft LRU (Line Replaceable Unit) MROs (Maintenance, Repair Organization) struggle to meet service levels. To stay competitive, literature describes two strategies; increasing contracted fleet size and not reaching projected repair turn around times. Besides these two strategies, literature does not describe the use of triple echelon order...master thesis 2021
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van Leeuwen, Anouk (author)The Dutch Railways (NS) is the Dutch national passenger railway operator. They own rolling stock that has to be maintained regularly. One of the maintenance facilities executing regular maintenance on regional trains is the maintenance department (OB) in Leidschendam. The aim of this project is to develop a framework for optimizing the...master thesis 2021
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Verbeij, Marco (author)In this report, supply chains of factory outlet stores are analyzed. Here, the concept of factory outlet stores have been investigated in literature to be able to understand which goal these stores serves. Based on a pull based supply chain perspective, replenishment has been investigated. Here, demand forecast, inventory, order ful_llment and...master thesis 2020