Staging queues in material handling and transportation systems
Proceedings of the 33nd conference on Winter simulation
Modeling and Analysis of Congestion in the Design of Facility Layouts
Management Science
The parcel hub scheduling problem: a simulation-based solution approach
Computers and Industrial Engineering
WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
Positioning of goods in a cross-docking environment
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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
Modeling cross-docking operations using discrete event simulation
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation
Scheduling cross docking operations under full, partial and no information on inbound arrivals
Computers and Operations Research
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
Computers and Operations Research
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Robust door assignment in less-than-truckload terminals
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Flight assignment plan for an air cargo inbound terminal
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
Analysis of different approaches to cross-dock truck scheduling with truck arrival time uncertainty
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A tabu search approach to the truck scheduling problem with multiple docks and time windows
Computers and Industrial Engineering
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Supervisors in a less-than-truckload freight terminal establish material flows inside the terminal by assigning incoming trailers to open doors. A common scheduling strategy is to look ahead into the queue of incoming trailers and assign them to doors to minimize worker travel. We develop a model of the resulting material flows and use it to construct layouts that exploit this type of scheduling policy. Based on data from a test site, our results suggest that look-ahead scheduling alone can reduce labor costs due to travel by 15-20% compared to a first-come-first served policy. Layouts constructed with the material flow model provide further savings of 3-30% in labor cost due to travel, depending on the mix of freight on incoming trailers and the length of the queue of trailers from which the supervisor makes assignments.