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
Truck scheduling at zero-inventory cross docking terminals
Computers and Operations Research
The parcel hub scheduling problem: A simulation-based solution approach
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Multiple crossdocks with inventory and time windows
Computers and Operations Research
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Cross docking is a practice in logistics with the main operations of unloading products from an incoming truck, regrouping them with respect to their destinations and loading them directly into an outbound truck with minimum storage in between these operations. In this article, we study the transshipment scheduling problem in a multiple inbound and outbound dock configuration. The operations manager has several decisions to make: he can decide to transship products directly from inbound to an outbound truck, if an outbound truck is available; he can temporarily store certain products and have them loaded later on; or he can replace an outbound truck to facilitate direct loading. The objective is to find the best schedule of transshipment operations to minimize the sum of inventory holding and truck replacement costs. In this article, we present several heuristics to attain this objective. Numerical experiments are presented and the results are compared with the optimal solution to evaluate the performance of the heuristics.