This paper studies spare part transshipments between two service part facilities whose demands are correlated. Transshipments are used to reduce severity of part stock outs. Facilities are run by an inventory manager (IM) who minimizes replenishment, transshipment, and inventory costs. We show that the optimal transshipment policy is an inventory hold-back type; if the part inventory at a facil...

What is the best distribution strategy to ship materials from a source to multiple destinations on a regular basis? This is a common question confronting logistics planners in many industries. This paper examines this issue in the context of the ocean freight industry. In particular, we tackle the economics of freighting raw materials through a transshipment hub, and propose a method to synchro...

In modern rail-rail transshipment yards huge gantry cranes spanning all railway tracks allow for an e cient transshipment of containers between di erent freight trains. This way, multiple trains loaded with cargo for varying destinations can be consolidated to a reduced number of homogeneous trains, which is an essential requirement of hub-and-spoke railway systems. An important problem during ...

This chapter intends to give an overview of the literature on dynamic lot-sizing models and stochastic transshipment models. These two types of models are used as a basis for developing models with substitution in the following chapters. Section 2.1 contains a classification of models for dynamic lot-sizing / production planning, and selected models. In Sect. 2.2, we give a brief overview of av...

This chapter intends to give an overview of the literature on dynamic lot-sizing models and stochastic transshipment models. These two types of models are used as a basis for developing models with substitution in the following chapters. Section 2.1 contains a classification of models for dynamic lot-sizing / production planning, and selected models. In Sect. 2.2, we give a brief overview of av...

Ongoing globalization causes increasing transportation rates and transshipment volumes at sea ports (Steenken, 2004). Different to container transshipment, the transshipment of finished vehicles has received only minor attention in research yet (Mattfeld and Kopfer, 2003). By means of statistics for major ports of the North-West European coast line the structure and development of vehicle trans...

This chapter intends to give an overview of the literature on dynamic lot-sizing models and stochastic transshipment models. These two types of models are used as a basis for developing models with substitution in the following chapters. Section 2.1 contains a classification of models for dynamic lot-sizing / production planning, and selected models. In Sect. 2.2, we give a brief overview of av...

between the first origin and the last destination. Many shipments travel by longer, less direct routes. Most available data on commodity shipments within a single country identify the first origins and the last destinations but not any transshipment points along the way. The Commercial Vehicle Survey, provided by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, Canada, proved to have particularly use...

This chapter intends to give an overview of the literature on dynamic lot-sizing models and stochastic transshipment models. These two types of models are used as a basis for developing models with substitution in the following chapters. Section 2.1 contains a classification of models for dynamic lot-sizing / production planning, and selected models. In Sect. 2.2, we give a brief overview of av...