In the e‐commerce era, vendors have to satisfy a large number of on‐line orders, mainly from private customers, with low weight and volume, reduced delivery time, and overlap of customers' time windows. Production is made available all day long. New strategies and new technologies are emerging for deliveries. The processing time of the orders is reduced. These new features generate interesting challenges in formulating and solving Routing and Inventory Routing problems. After discussing these features and the corresponding challenges, we recall the relevant literature in Routing and Inventory Routing and provide future research directions, mainly related to routing problems with release dates, routing problems with crowdshipping, and inventory routing problems in the e‐commerce era.

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路由和库存路由中的最新挑战：电子商务和最后一英里交付

在电子商务时代，供应商必须满足大量的在线订单，这些订单主要来自私人客户，而且重量轻，体积小，交货时间短并且客户的时间窗口重叠。生产全天可用。交付的新战略和新技术正在涌现。订单的处理时间减少了。这些新功能在制定和解决工艺路线和库存工艺路线问题时产生了有趣的挑战。在讨论了这些功能和相应的挑战之后，我们回顾了“路由和库存路由”中的相关文献，并提供了未来的研究方向，主要涉及发布日期的路由问题，带有众包的路由问题以及电子商务时代的库存路由问题。