1. Project Status Update IIT Kharagpur
REINVEST Meeting University of Sheffield
Dec 5-7, 2016
Akhilesh Kumar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Industrial & Systems Engineering

2. Outline
 Research Activities
 Industry Interactions
 Common Working Platform
 Sustainable Omni Channel Delivery Network
 Dissemination Activities

3. Research Activities Title Problem Description/Features
Modeling and Solution Approach
Status
Multi-objective approach to resolve sustainable ship routing and scheduling problem with draft restrictions
Maritime transportation
ship-routing, time window, discrete planning horizon, loading/unloading operation, slow steaming policy, carbon emission and vessel’s draft restriction to maintain safety at a port
A mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) model
Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) and Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization (MOPSO) is employed to solve the multi- objective mathematical formulation.
IEEE Transaction on Engg. Management
Multi Period Green Reverse Logistics Network Design with Vehicle Routing
A bottle remanufacturing
A profit maximization modeling framework for green reverse logistics with vehicle routing in dynamic setting
A mixed-integer linear programming formulation for proposed model
Solved using CPLEX and relevant managerial insights
Submitted to International Journal of Production Economics
Truck packing cost minimisation along with carbon emission reduction
A cost minimization problem for FMCG’s for transportation of goods
Weight, volume, demand of each products and hiring costs, carbon emissions, weight and volume constraints of the freight carriers available.
Multi-Objective Programming (MOP) model with cost and carbon emission reduction
A two stage approach of NSGA-II + Co-Kriging
Work-In-Progress

4.  O9 Solutions, Bangalore
Industry Interaction
 O9 Solutions, Bangalore
 A study has been carried out on Allocations In Multistage Customer
Hierarchies
 A PG student did his summer internship at o9 Solution
 JDA, Bangalore
 Designing Distribution network for Omni-Channel Fulfilment
 A conference paper presentation at POMS conference at SP Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai
 A strategic retail analytics framework development underway

5. REINVEST Website - Update
 Developed a dynamic website and running at project.eu
 We have shared with each partner the respective login-ID and password for the above mentioned website
 The website is loaded with features mainly taking into account the appearance, user experience, and search engine optimization
 Inputs/Suggestion

6. Multi-Channel Regional Forw rd
Omni Channel
Website
Stores &
Branches
Smart Phone
Catalogs
Order from Anywhere
Call Center
Digital Wall
Distribution Centers: eCommerce
Retail Wholesale
Multi-Channel Regional Forw rd
Customer
Fulfill from Anywhere
Vending VMI/CMI/POS
Stores &
Br nches
3PL
Drop-Ship
Designing DCs for Omni-channel Fulfillment

7. The DSS Sustainable Omni Channel Delivery Network Know customers
Know demand
Know real time sales
The number
location
Size of stores
Delivery slots for the customers
Fleet size and type
Delivery Type: Attended Home/Pick-up
Replenishment deliveries to
the store
Analytics Vehicle Routing P-median
Revenue Management

8. Omni Channel Retail Analytics
How a retailer can use its wealth of data to forecast demand, optimize vehicle routing problem, delivery and warehousing decisions and also exploit to identify root cause of problems
Raw Data from ERP
Customer
Data hierarchy at different SKU level
nodes/level(SKU)
Relevant business questions that can be answered?
How good is existing demand forecast at each level.
Whether some level of aggregation or disaggregation can be achieved at any level?
Capturing bullwhip effect by analyzing demand vs return data?
Optimal retail store density and warehouse density?
Optimal Vehicle routing?
Options for investing in green supply chain technology to reduce carbon footprint?

9. Dissemination Activities
 Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari and Dr. Akhilesh Kumar attended a workshop on REINVEST PROJECT held at IIT Delhi and Mumbai
 Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari attended 3rd International Conference on Green Supply Chain held at Loughborough University, London Campus, UK
 Dr. Akhilesh Kumar presented a paper at POMS conference at SP Jain Institute of Management Research, Mumbai

10. Future Plans
 Workshop at IIT Kharagpur during Summer 2017

11. Thank You!!!