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Title: | EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE LAST MILE DELIVERY MODELS: YAMATO TRANSPORT | Authors: | LI CHEUK KWAN JEREMY | Issue Date: | 2015 | Citation: | LI CHEUK KWAN JEREMY (2015). EXPLORING ALTERNATIVE LAST MILE DELIVERY MODELS: YAMATO TRANSPORT. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. | Abstract: | Increasing business competition of the modern age has resulted in the proliferation of novel business models of all manners to serve customers better than the next rival. Such is also true of the logistics industry, wherein companies adopt not just the traditional Attended Home Delivery (AHD) model, but also newer alternatives such as the Collection-and-Delivery Points (CDP) model to handle last mile deliveries to customers. While contemporary research on such models for last mile delivery is well-developed, the issue of alternative constructs within the same last mile delivery model receives scant attention. Given that the performance of each delivery model has the potential to vary greatly depending on its configuration, such a rigourous analysis of alternative constructs is long overdue. In this study, we attempt at developing two alternative constructs of the CDP model, namely the stock model and flow model. These models are developed by means of deterministic simulation and are analysed both individually and comparatively using various parameters developed in the paper. The data set utilised is the delivery data provided by Yamato Transport, supplemented by the EZ-link transaction data provided by the Land Transport Authority of Singapore also used in the flow model. Using this approach, the stock model was found to provide a more extensive coverage while the flow model is more efficient in terms of capital investment required. The result highlights the significant performance differences that can occur in alternative constructs of the same delivery model and paves the way for further studies on alternative model constructions sharing a common delivery concept. | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/147579 |
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