A microcomputer based decision support tool for assigning dock doors in freight yards
Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Computers and industrial engineering
An optimal solution to a dock door assignment problem
Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computers and industrial engineering
Modern heuristic techniques for combinatorial problems
The Effects of Trailer Scheduling on the Layout of Freight Terminals
Transportation Science
Reducing Labor Costs in an LTL Crossdocking Terminal
Operations Research
The Best Shape for a Crossdock
Transportation Science
The parcel hub scheduling problem: a simulation-based solution approach
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A dock-door assignment problem for the Korean mail distribution center
Computers and Industrial Engineering - Special issue: Logistics and supply chain management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A bounded dynamic programming approach to schedule operations in a cross docking platform
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Heuristic solutions for transshipment problems in a multiple door cross docking warehouse
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Multi-objective genetic-based algorithms for a cross-docking scheduling problem
Applied Soft Computing
A novel column generation algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with cross-docking
INOC'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Network optimization
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The Pickup and Delivery Problem with Cross-Docking
Computers and Operations Research
Three-stage hybrid-flowshop model for cross-docking
Computers and Operations Research
Exact algorithms for inventory constrained scheduling on a single machine
Journal of Scheduling
Analysis of different approaches to cross-dock truck scheduling with truck arrival time uncertainty
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A tabu search approach to the truck scheduling problem with multiple docks and time windows
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Advances in Truck Scheduling at a Cross Dock Facility
International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
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Handling freight at cross docking terminals constitutes a complex planning task which comprises several executive steps as shipments delivered by inbound trucks are to be unloaded, sorted according to their designated destinations, moved across the dock and finally loaded onto outbound trucks for an immediate delivery elsewhere in the distribution system. To enable an efficient synchronization of inbound and outbound flows, a careful planning of operations, e.g. by computerized scheduling procedures, becomes indispensable. This work treats a special truck scheduling problem arising in the (zero-inventory) cross docks of the food industry, where strict cooling requirements forbid an intermediate storage inside the terminal, so that all products are to be instantaneously loaded onto refrigerated outbound trucks. The problem is formalized such that different operational objectives, i.e. the flow time, processing time and tardiness of outbound trucks, are minimized. To solve the resulting truck scheduling problem suited exact and heuristic solution procedures are presented.