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
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
Minimizing makespan in two-stage hybrid cross docking scheduling problem
Computers and Operations Research
Multiple crossdocks with inventory and time windows
Computers and Operations Research
Three-stage hybrid-flowshop model for cross-docking
Computers and Operations Research
Approximations for the Two-Machine Cross-Docking Flow Shop Problem
Discrete Applied Mathematics
Analysis of different approaches to cross-dock truck scheduling with truck arrival time uncertainty
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Cross docking is a logistic technique which seeks to reduce the inventory holding, order picking, transportation costs and delivery time. Little attention has been given to the transshipment operations inside a cross dock. In this article, we study the transshipment scheduling problem in a single receiving and a single shipping door cross dock under three scheduling policies: In the first policy, we assume to have complete information on the order of arrivals and the contents of all inbound trucks. The second and the third policies assume the availability of partial and no information on the sequence of upcoming trucks. An optimal graph based model is proposed for the full information case, and a polynomial time algorithm is given. Heuristics are developed for the other two cases. The comparison of the costs associated to each policy helps evaluating the value of information in cross dock scheduling problems.