Strategies to Regulate Inbound Logistics at Convention Centers: A Case Study at the RAI Amsterdam

Convention centers are facing logistic challenges due to poor performance, lack of space and governmental regulations. This research is focused on finding strategies that can improve performance while maintaining or reducing space and complying to these governmental regulations. In this research three main strategies are introduced that can...

Servitization in the Shipbuilding Industry: A research into the relation of user profiles and service contracts of high speed transport vessels

Research in the field of servitization as a business strategy is emerging since its first appearance by Vandermerwe, 1988 and later but parallel developments by Goedkoop, 1999. Servitization is the act of selling complete packages of goods and after sales services. Various industry examples present successes with the implementation of the...

The influence of risk on the design of a warehouse loading area: Development of a parametric model to evaluate logistic design choices for the warehouse loading area

Heineken's goal with respect to safety is to reduce the number of accidents to zero. Such a drastic reduction can only be achieved by considering safety as early as in the design phase, when most impact can be made. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to enable the easy generation of different design concepts and evaluate them with regard...

Optimisation methods for the multi-period petrol station replenishment problem: A case study at AMCS

The petrol distribution problem is well-known in the literature as the Petrol Station Replenishment Problem (PSRP). This research concerns a "rich" version of the multi-period PSRP with real-life characteristics, to represent the complexity of the practical problem. The planning is optimised over multiple days, since stations do not need to be...

Designing a Robust Supply Chain for Military operations: A Multi-Agent Simulation approach considering Platooning

Supply chains are to be found in almost every corporation around the world. When tryingto manage a supply chain often two types of disturbance can jeopardize the effectiveness of a supply chain. These are supply and demand uncertainty. This thesis tries to investigate the effects of those two types of disturbances in a supply chain and seeks to...

Decreasing the exposure of temperature-sensitive cargo to ambient temperature on the tarmac at KLM Cargo

Temperature excursions show that goods that are transported from an aircraft to the warehouse are exposed to ambient temperature for too long, affecting the temperature of the cargo. KLM Cargo has a cool chain project that tends to gain more insight in the operational performance. With the exposure as KPI, defined as Degree-Hours, all subsequent...

Data Driven Shelf Life Prediction

Artificial intelligence is used in this research to predict the shelf life of strawberries. The prediction of shelf life is based on temperature measurements from the moment a package of strawberries is harvested till the moment this same package is bought by a customer in a local PLUS supermarket. The strawberries are harvested in the south of...

The impact of routing optimization on the profit of the process for EPS waste collection

In times when there is more and more focus on environmental impact, all aspects must be taken into account. Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is easy and cheap to produce and has lots of applications because of its properties. These properties however, also make it a hard material to recycle. This paper focuses on a rich mathematical model for the...

Estimating arrival times of inland ships

This research focused on improving a current traveltime estimation system called<br/>the Trajectplanner. This system simulates the movements of inland ships on a<br/>network model of the Dutch inland waterways in order to calculate and to<br/>estimate the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) for every ship that sails the inland<br/>waterways ...

Re-Design of a Current State Push Based Towards a Future State Pull Based Logistic System: A case study into the flower auction order handling process at Royal FloraHolland Aalsmeer by discrete event simulation

The performance of the logistical process from the flower auction at Royal FloraHolland is under pressure. Due to decreased transaction sizes more handling is required to process the same volume and this results in lower performance. The information system used to coordinate the process is based on a fixed relation between auction and...