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French e-grocery models: a comparison of deliveries performances

Bruno Durand1
University of Nantes Lemna France ([e-mail])

Jesus Gonzalez-Féliu sciencesconf.org:erc2012:3600 University of Lyon 2 Let France ([e-mail])

Bruno Durand is a Lecturer in Management Sciences at the University of Nantes, where he comanages the International Logistic fifth year university program in the Language Faculty (Department ssociation), he pursues his research work within the LEMNA (Nantes-Atlantic Laboratory of Economy and Management), more particularly in the field of e-logistics (e-grocery logistics) and in that of city logistics.

Jesus Gonzalez-Féliu is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the French National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), and member of the Laboratory of Economy in Transportation (LET). He passed his Ph.D. in information and systems engineering in 2008 at Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) in the subject of operations research applied to urban freight distribution solutions and two-echelon vehicle routing problems. His research interests include city logistics planning and policy, decision support systems, shopping trip modeling and the effects of e-commerce on urban mobility, transportation system optimization and performance and collaborative transportation.

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Corresponding Author. Address: Université de Nantes, LEMNA, UFR de Langues, Département LEA, Chemin de la Censive-du-Tertre, BP 81227, 44312 Nantes Cedex 3

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French e-grocery models: a comparison of deliveries performances

Abstract

This paper proposes a discussion of three scenarios related to French e-grocery developments, in

shopping trip flows. One of our objectives will be to consider logistics solutions adopted by online retailers.

Firstly, we present the two basic models of B2C: order-picking on a dedicated site and in-store picking.

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Secondly, we evaluate three

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