At cross docking terminals incoming deliveries of inbound trucks are unloaded, sorted, moved across the dock and nally loaded onto outbound trucks, which immediately leave the terminal towards their next destination in the distribution chain. Accordingly, a cross dock is a consolidation point in a distribution network, where multiple smaller shipments can be merged to full truck loads in order ...

In order to reduce costs and increase efficiency of a supply chain system, cross docking is one of the most important strategies of warehousing for consolidation shipments from different suppliers to different customers. Products are collected from suppliers by inbound trucks and then moved to customers by outbound trucks through cross dock. Scheduling of trucks plays important role in the cros...

A class of strong lower bounds on the solution value a Linearised Integer Programming reformulation is introduced for binary quadratic optimisation model to assign origin and destination nodes strip stack doors, resp., in cross-dock infrastructure. The goal minimise transportation cost commodities be handled at cross-dock. Strip- stack-related decomposition submodels are developed by taking ben...

Abstract This study presents a design scheme for multi-module connected floating dock, comprising two configurations the lower body: transverse and longitudinal floats. An articulated connection between modules is also included. The hydrodynamic performance of dock with these compared analyzed by taking South China Sea as an example. Frequency time-domain analysis methods are employed, consider...

Cross docking is an efficient and dynamic logistic process that directly transfers goods from a supplier to a customer. This thesis addresses the door assignment and resource management problem with truck time windows constraints for a specific cross dock. The problems are formulated as mixed integer programming (MIP) models. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of the total travel dis...

Over the past decade, cross-docking has emerged as an important material handling technology in transportation. A variation of the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), the Vehicle Routing Problem with Cross-Docking (VRPCD) arises in a number of logistics planning contexts. This paper addresses the VRPCD, where a set of homogeneous vehicles are used to transport products from the suppliers ...

This study addresses the pickup and delivery problem for cross-docking strategy, in which shipments are allowed to be transferred from suppliers to retailers directly as well as through cross-docks. Usual models that investigate vehicle routing in cross-docking networks force all vehicles to stop at the cross-dock even if a shipment is about to a full truckload or the vehicle collects and deliv...

The management of trucks in a cross-docking platform is a process under five steps: the arrival, the control, the unloading, the transfer and finally the loading. In each of these steps, a sequence of decisions arise. To achieve an optimal and robust solutions, the interdependencies between the different planning functions should be taken into account, and scheduling decisions must be made simu...

Cross-docking is a warehousing strategy in logistics used by process industries making products with high proportions of distribution costs. It is described as the process of moving goods from suppliers to customers through a cross-dock terminal without a long-term storage in this facility. The vehicle routing problem with cross-docking (VRPCD) consists of fulfilling a set of transportation req...