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
Reducing Labor Costs in an LTL Crossdocking Terminal
Operations Research
The Best Shape for a Crossdock
Transportation Science
Positioning of goods in a cross-docking environment
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Scheduling trucks in cross-docking systems: Robust meta-heuristics
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Ant colony optimization algorithm to solve for the transportation problem of cross-docking network
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Many supply chains strive to shorten the time between a customer's order and the actual delivery of the ordered goods. Cross docking is one of the options to reduce these response times. Cross docking facilities are dynamic environments where products arrive and leave the same day. To deal with these dynamic aspects, the need for efficient control policies in combination with flexible and easy to reconfigure storage area layouts increases. We present a dynamic design methodology to select control policies and determine layout rules for cross docking facilities. We present both advantages and disadvantages of the proposed layout procedures. We use the cross docking center of the ''Royal Horticultural Company Lemkes'' in The Netherlands as the basis for a comparative analysis of the procedures presented. We show that, by applying our design methodology, a savings of 16% can be obtained in total travel distances of employees.