A Study of B2C E-Commerce delivery model based on total cost approach
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Shih, Chao-Hsiang
Abstract
With the fast growth of global B2C e-commerce market; its related issues are increasingly being focused. In order to stand out in the fierce competition; it is a crucial key in the marketplace for the products to be quickly and accurately delivered to consumers. As to meet the rapid distribution of products, many electrical businesses have begun to build their own teams to meet consumers’ demands through fast-intensive distribution methods and therefore to create competitive advantage. The purpose of this study pertains to B2C e-commerce distribution in order to consider the time limit premise and to minimize distribution costs. In the B2C e-commerce and logistics distribution model, the lowest cost is often the main performance indicator. In the earlier literature, there were also considerations of B2C e-commerce distribution under time constraints and time effectiveness. In the B2C e-commerce distribution, time effectiveness and cost should be equally important and both be taken into account. For these reasons, this study also includes the time effectiveness and cost considerations to construct a distribution model. The construction of model to minimize the cost with the delivery time limit, using heuristic algorithms to solve facility location problem and vehicle routing problem respectively. Providing facility location, number of facilities, as well as recommending the number of vehicles required, improving the time-oriented sequential savings method results and to shorten delivery time. This study provides electrical business a flexible decision-making tool, which can be adjusted by a cost function and time constraints to develop optimum strategy and portfolio, which then enhance distribution efficiency competitiveness. Finally, we use the well-known B2C electricity supplier order data, giving relevant recommendations for distribution companies as a reference.
Subjects
B2C E-commerce Logistic
Distribution Model
Location-Routing Problem
Huristic
Type
thesis
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