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<p>The rapid development of China’s economy, especially the rapid rise of the logistics and distribution industry in recent years, coupled with the rise of e-commerce in recent years, has created a huge impact on the traditional logistics industry. Aiming at the sorting system of small and medium-sized logistics distribution centrer, this paper proposes an item allocation strategy based on customer demand in combination with practical application requirements and adopts the direct dynamic clustering algorithm based on hierarchical clustering. As a clustering index, all items in the distribution centre are clustered and the final clustering result is obtained. The results show that the maximum value of segmentation using the single connection method is 5.8, reflecting that the distribution distance is more advantageous; the maximum value of the segmentation method using the median method is 2.94, and the minimum value is 2.35, which reflects that the result of the algorithm is relatively uniform. A reasonable item allocation strategy has a certain positive effect and influence on the development of modern logistics and the service quality of the logistics industry.</p>
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The rapid development of China’s economy, especially the rapid rise of the logistics and distribution industry in recent years, coupled with the rise of e-commerce in recent years, has created a huge impact on the traditional logistics industry. Aiming at the sorting system of small and medium-sized logistics distribution centrer, this paper proposes an item allocation strategy based on customer demand in combination with practical application requirements and adopts the direct dynamic clustering algorithm based on hierarchical clustering. As a clustering index, all items in the distribution centre are clustered and the final clustering result is obtained. The results show that the maximum value of segmentation using the single connection method is 5.8, reflecting that the distribution distance is more advantageous; the maximum value of the segmentation method using the median method is 2.94, and the minimum value is 2.35, which reflects that the result of the algorithm is relatively uniform. A reasonable item allocation strategy has a certain positive effect and influence on the development of modern logistics and the service quality of the logistics industry.

Research on the optimisation of logistics parcel intelligent sorting and conveying chain combined with variable clustering mathematical method

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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The rapid development of China’s economy, especially the rapid rise of the logistics and distribution industry in recent years, coupled with the rise of...

Research on the optimisation of logistics parcel intelligent sorting and conveying chain combined with variable clustering mathematical method

Published Online: Dec 15, 2022

Page range: 181 - 192

Received: Jun 02, 2022

Accepted: Jun 16, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00259

Keywords
Sorting system, Item assignment, Hierarchical clustering, Direct dynamic clustering, Fisher distance

© 2023 Shenghua Yan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Research on the optimisation of logistics parcel intelligent sorting and conveying chain combined with variable clustering mathematical method

Published Online: Dec 15, 2022

Page range: 181 - 192

Received: Jun 02, 2022

Accepted: Jun 16, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00259

KeywordsSorting system, Item assignment, Hierarchical clustering, Direct dynamic clustering, Fisher distance

© 2023 Shenghua Yan et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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Keywords
Sorting system, Item assignment, Hierarchical clustering, Direct dynamic clustering, Fisher distance