[DMANET] 9th Informs Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop

Dear colleagues,


We are happy to inform you that Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad is
hosting the 9th Informs Transportation Science and Logistics Society
Workshop from 13th to 15th December 2021. The workshop will be delivered in
a virtual mode. The theme for the Workshop is "*E-Commerce in an Emerging
World*".



E-commerce has revolutionized retail. It has evolved to meet the changing
needs of people, and to make online shopping easier for the modern-day
customer. When it started, e-commerce was fairly limited in its product
offerings and capabilities. But today, e-commerce retail offers a wide
assortment of products and orders are often delivered to the customers on
the same day. However, in emerging economies, e-commerce providers face
several challenges particularly related to logistics and transportation
such as shortage of high-quality warehousing infrastructure, missed
deliveries, high usage of cash on delivery services resulting in
restrictive delivery schedules, limited transport infrastructure, high
packaging costs, and lack of standardized postal addresses. These
challenges lead to the high cost to fulfil customer orders. E-commerce
companies are developing capabilities to overcome these challenges using
real-time data, algorithms, OR solutions, policy, and technology
interventions.



In this context, we invite contributions on the following themes.

- Last-mile Logistics
- Sharing Economy in Last-mile Delivery
- Design of Omnichannel Distribution Models
- Urban Distribution Systems
- Logistics 4.0 (IoTs, autonomous vehicles, drones)
- Dynamic Delivery Pricing, Dynamic Delivery Systems, and Crowdshipping
- Efficient and scalable Sortation and Package Handling
- Integration of Public and Freight Transportation
- Manpower Planning and Productivity
- Transportation Scheduling
- Network Topology and Hub Location Planning
- Real-time Planning and Orchestration of Shipments



Workshop details can be found here: https://conference.iima.ac.in/tsl2021/



Abstract can be submitted here:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=tsl2021iima



Abstracts of max 1000 words should be submitted by 15th Aug 2021.
Selection of papers for presentation will be based on the submitted
abstracts. Abstracts must include a clear indication of the purpose of
research, methodology, major results, implications, and key references.



We look forward to seeing you in December.



Regards,



*TSL Workshop Organizers*

Prof. Sandip Chakrabarti, IIM Ahmedabad
Dr. Joris Kinable, Amazon, Seattle, USA
Prof. Srikumar Krishnamoorthy, IIM Ahmedabad
Prof. Debjit Roy, IIM Ahmedabad
Prof. Tom Van Woensel, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.

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