Optimising storage assignment, order picker routing, and order batching for an e-grocery fulfilment centre: An exact and heuristic approach

With (e-)grocery retailers striving to increase their efficiency and subsequently reduce their costs, the opportunities that lie in optimising the order picking process of the supply chain is of key importance. The complex nature of assigning articles to an optimal storage location, having efficient routing of order pickers, and optimised...

Solving a flexible resource-constrained project scheduling problem for an e-grocery fulfilment centre: a meta-heuristic approach: Master thesis Aerospace Engineering

The demand for online shopping has grown tremendously in the last couple of years. Picnic, a major player in the online grocery industry, is struggling to achieve long-term growth within its current operations. Scheduling and planning are key drivers for maintaining operational efficiency. The Fulfilment Centre (FC) and...

Waste reduction in e-groceries fulfilment center: A case study at Picnic

Food waste is an increasing problem worldwide. Around one third of all produced food is estimated to end up as waste. This has big environmental and economic consequences. In literature, little is known about the causes of waste, its key performance indicators and how to reduce it. Some root causes were found, but none were quantitatively...

Great Local Products 'Within Reach': Company positioning and mobile application design

Great local products ‘within reach’, the title of this report, represents both the proposition of Rechtstreex as well as it is a play on words, with the final design of this report being a mobile application. This abstract provides a short summary, describing the problem situation, activities carried out, results found and an outline of the...