Multiple crossdocks with inventory and time windows

Authors:
Ping Chen;Yunsong Guo;Andrew Lim;Brian Rodrigues
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD;Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore;Department of IEEM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong;School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Venue:
Computers and Operations Research
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Crossdocking studies have mostly been concerned with the physical layout of a crossdock or on a single crossdock. In this work, we study a network of crossdocks taking into consideration delivery and pickup time windows, warehouse capacities and inventory-handling costs. Because of the complexity of the problem, local search techniques are developed and used with simulated annealing and tabu search heuristics. Extensive experiments were conducted and results show that the heuristics outperform CPLEX, providing solutions in realistic timescales.