Abstract
The internet development access is really very fast and change all aspects for life activities include buying and selling transactions of goods or services that can arrange online or also called e-commerce which courier service influence. The courier basic operational is logistics of a supply chain. Transportation is a vital component in logistics management because it becomes the largest cost component in its activities that is about 50-60% of the total logistics costs. The purpose of this study is to find out what kind of vehicle routing problem (VRP) is used for courier service so can be used as reference for further research. Collect and selection process found 40 science journals for analyse. There has been a lot of research about the shortest route problem for courier service or can also called city logistics with VRP which the optimum solution obtained with heuristic and metaheuristic algorithm. Result found VRP type often used for courier service are dynamic VRP (DVRP) and VRP with time window (VRPTW) or can merging both dynamic VRP with time window (DVRPTW).
Highlights
The internet development access is really very fast and change all aspects for life activities include buying and selling transactions of goods or services that can arrange online or called e-commerce
Transportation is a vital component in this logistics management because it becomes the largest cost component in its activities that is about 50-60% of the total logistics costs [2]
Toth and Vigo stated that Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) for the shortest route determination can reduce the cost significantly around 5% - 20% [8]
Summary
The internet development access is really very fast and change all aspects for life activities include buying and selling transactions of goods or services that can arrange online or called e-commerce. Based on the 2016 Economic Census Data, Indonesia became one of the world's highest e-commerce growth countries around 17% in the last 10 years [1]. Significant cost of goods delivery services specially for courier, which is 14-15% for Indonesia or issued Rp. 50 trillion based on data from the Association of Express Delivery Service Companies, Post and Logistics Indonesia (Asperindo) in the same year. Transportation is a vital component in this logistics management because it becomes the largest cost component in its activities that is about 50-60% of the total logistics costs [2]. Transportation costs are measurable costs but difficult to control
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