Vision 2020 : conséquences pour les bureaux distributeurs de la région sud de la centralisation du tri des paquets dans le nouveau centre de tri de Bruxelles X

Abstract

Not only the downturn in the volumes of classical mail sent, but also the upsurge in the ecommerce sector mark the genesis of a new era for bpost. Indeed, even if historically, the major part of its activity was based on the letter, its future can be found in the parcel sector. In order to come with this movement, the central management decided to launch a reorganization: the vision 2020. This implies the creation of a new sorting center, specialized in the handling of packages, located in Brussels. The ambition behind this accommodation is to enhance the service provided to its major professional clients while cutting major costs.

After the inauguration of this contemporary site, in September 2017, bpost will call for redesigned transport processes that would minimize its general costs with respect to the operational constraints. As the company craves to expand its market share on this industry, a keystone will be the time slot between the procurement and the delivery of the parcel, which will have to be shorten as much as possible.

This thesis aims to present the new routes that would be optimal for the conveyance of the miscellaneous products within the area of Liège|Luxembourg. The objective aforementioned is mainly based on the intensive use of an optimization software, AMCS Transvision Route Planner. For the sake of enabling these plans to be flexible, additional fictional places are reserved in the trucks. In order to support these itineraries, a convenient modus operandi for their implementation will be put forward. Finally, this conduces to insights of potential designs of the company’s future operations regarding the challenging combination of great dilemmas and its forceful ambition.