| dc.description.abstract | Nowadays, with the strong development of e-commerce, the demand of online
shopping is more and more increasing that leads to delivery service and e-payment grow
strongly with million orders per day. To satisfy customers’ demand and lower the delivery
time, companies in that field need to design their logistics flow optimally.
This thesis presents the hub and spoke model applying in Best Express company. It
aims to optimize the transportation flow among hubs of Best Express in middle mile
delivery with the optimal cost. In addition, it considers disruption factor and find out the
backup hub once the disruption occurs. Mixed integer linear programming will be
proposed to solve this problem. Also, a sensitivity analysis will be conducted to observe
the changes of cost when changing some parameters. | en_US |
