Improving space management and bottlenecks in a retailer order-fulfilling system: The case of IKEA Delft

Retailers must adapt their activity to comply with the evolving demands of their customers. Increasing demand on order-fulfilment services, along with determination to keep high service levels, have raised the problem of space scarcity at retailer stores to keep and process picked customer orders. Congestion is then experienced in store order...

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...