PhD Defence Joydeep Paul
In his dissertation 'Online Grocery Operations in Omni-channel Retailing: Opportunities and Challenges', Joydeep Paul explored capacity sharing strategies between the vehicles of store replenishment and online fulfilment in buy-online-pick-up-in-store omni-channel model. Through an extensive numerical study, he shows that significant savings in distribution costs can be achieved by sharing capacity of vehicles across two channels. Alongside the planning aspects, he also studied the interaction between the online and store channel in an omni-channel setting.