Reducing Labor Costs in an LTL Crossdocking Terminal
Operations Research
The Best Shape for a Crossdock
Transportation Science
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
Scheduling trucks in cross-docking systems: Robust meta-heuristics
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Vehicle routing with cross-docking in the supply chain
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A template-based Tabu Search algorithm for the Consistent Vehicle Routing Problem
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A simulated annealing heuristic for the truck and trailer routing problem with time windows
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Robust door assignment in less-than-truckload terminals
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Different from warehouse, crossdock is considered as a ''JIT'' technique in logistics and supply chain management (LSCM), which is usually a short period of time to store cargos. Since cargos transported to a crossdock by inbound trucks are immediately sorted out, repackaged, routed and loaded into outbound trucks and then delivered to customers within one day, one of the key issues to operate crossdock successfully is to develop an efficient truck-dock assignment module in the crossdock management system so that all the cargos can be delivered to customers on time. In this paper, we propose an adaptive tabu search (ATS) algorithm as an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to optimize the truck-dock assignment problem within a crossdock in a very efficient way, and computational experiments are conducted, showing that our approach dominates the CPLEX Solver in both effectiveness and efficiency.