TPBOSCourier: a transportation procurement system (for the procurement of courier services)

  • Authors:

  • Andrew Lim;Zhou Xu;Brenda Cheang;Ho Wee Kit;Steve Au-Yeung

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong and School of Computer Science and Engineering, South Chin ...;Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong;Red Jasper Limited, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Red Jasper Limited, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong;Forwarding & Distribution- APAC Region, Philips General Purchasing & Transport and Storage Department, Kwai Chung, NT, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • IAAI'06 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

TPBOSCourier is the Transportation Procurement and Bid Optimization System (TPBOS) for Philips Electronics to automate and optimize its procurement of courier services. It was jointly developed by Red Jasper Limited and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and has been successfully deployed in 2005. Philips typically procures courier services for more than 2500 shipping lanes annually and the use of the software has resulted in significant cost and time savings in analyzing and optimizing procurement decisions. This paper explains the development and design of the TPBOSCourier.