SF Express Revolutionizes Its Operations Planning Strategy Using Operations Research

Yixiao Huang et al.

INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics2026https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2025.0281article
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SF Express, China’s leading integrated logistics provider, transitioned from manual network planning to a centralized, operations research-based system in 2018. This system addresses large-scale network design and routing challenges with advanced techniques to support strategic and operational decisions—resulting in over one billion dollars in financial savings and reductions of millions of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent over the past seven years.

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@article{yixiao2026,
  title        = {{SF Express Revolutionizes Its Operations Planning Strategy Using Operations Research}},
  author       = {Yixiao Huang et al.},
  journal      = {INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2025.0281},
}

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