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Operations Research
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Computers and Operations Research
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Transportation Science
Inbound Logistic Planning: Minimizing Transportation and Inventory Cost
Transportation Science
Heuristics for the variable sized bin-packing problem
Computers and Operations Research
A 0--1 LP Model for the Integration and Consolidation of Air Cargo Shipments
Operations Research
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In today's global free market, third-party logistics providers (3PLs) are becoming increasingly important. This paper studies a problem faced by a 3PL operating a warehouse in Shanghai, China, under contract with a major company for children's clothing based in the United States. The problem involves the allocation of textile parcel shipments at the warehouse to shipping routes with different destination ports, where the shipments are destined for different retail stores. The shipments must be loaded into containers of varying sizes and costs, and the objective is to find an allocation that minimizes the total container transportation and parcel delivery costs. We formulate the problem into an integer linear programming model, and also propose a genetic algorithm approach to solve the problem practically. A demonstration of a good solution to this problem was a decisive factor in the awarding of the contract to the 3PL in question.