Last-mile delivery systems are the final and imperative part of online shopping. Putting it down simply, the last-mile delivery system is the process of picking products from the transportation hub and delivering them to the destination hub. Here the transportation hub can be a local retailer or a warehouse and the destination hub can either be a commercial or residential area. Last-mile delivery has been gaining great attention due to the high demand of omnichannel retailing. Omnichannel retailing is a combined effect of both online and offline channels. The ideal omnichannel shopping extends from brick-and-mortar business to smart internet-based devices such as desktops, PCs and mobile devices and is a unified set of all these along with social media, storefronts, conventional marketing and online advertising.

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