A B2C agricultural products self-distribution system in E-commerce environment

Abstract

With the advent of Internet plus age, agricultural products home delivery mode has been concerned more and more. In this study, an optimized e-commerce distribution system was designed against the problems existing in the traditional agricultural products distribution process. The distribution structure and technology, operation process and profit model were analyzed based on business to customer (B2C) mode. Moreover the self-distribution system was optimized. As to the problem of distribution route, the concept of time window was added for restriction, hypothesis was proposed, and the role of saving algorithm for distribution route was analyzed. An example was demonstrated to verify that adding time window constraint saving algorithm into B2C mode based self-distribution system could optimize distribution route and enhance distribution efficiency. The application of the algorithm can save distribution cost and improve economic benefits.