Considering the importance of validation of customers in the cross-dock and since this is one of the problems of implementing cross-dock system in Iran, this study attempted to extract customer validation criteria. The purpose of the research is to eliminate the distrust of distributors in receiving the funds of the sent items and the statistical sample of this research is the experts of the sy...

in this study, a cross-docking system is designed at strategic and tactical levels. for making the strategic decisions, a multi-objective nonlinear location allocation model for cross-docks is presented based on a distri-bution location allocation model by andreas klose and andreas drexl. the model is further developed to in-clude the whole supply chain members and the objective functions are w...

Nowadays, cross docking plays an important role in the supply chain networks especially in transportation systems. According to the cross dock system advantages such as reducing transportation costs, lead times, and inventories, scheduling in a cross-dock center would be more complicated by increasing the number of suppliers, customers and product types. Considering the cross dock limited capac...

Cross docking is a logistics strategy that strives to reduce inventory holding costs, shipping costs, and delays in delivering the products. In this research, an optimization model is presented for split loading and unloading products by suppliers and customers, vehicle routing with fuzzy possibilistic time window constraints among them, assignment of vehicles to cross dock, consolidation and i...

Integrating Dock-Door Assignment and Vehicle Routing in Cross-Docking

In this paper, we propose an extension of the vehicle routing problem with crossdocking that takes into account resource constraints at the cross-dock. These constraints limit the number of docks that can be used simultaneously. To solve this new problem, we adapt a recently proposed matheuristic based on large neighborhood search. In particular, we focus on the feasibility tests for insertions...

Owing to the growing market in transportation networks and the mostly truck’s arrival in peak hours, trucks have to wait for available docks in a crossdocking platform (called also a cross-dock); this leads to increased congestion at the gate. Every time point where trucks have to wait is a waste for cross-dock yield. The congestion causes in turn planning problems in two ways. First, trucker h...

The system of distribution of goods and services, along with other economic developments around the world, is rapidly evolving. In the world of distribution of goods, the main focus is on making distribution operations more effective. Due to the fact that the cross-dock has the advantage of removing intermediaries and reducing the space required for the warehouse, it is worth considering. Among...

in a supply chain, cross-docking is one of the most innovative systems for ameliorating the operational performance at distribution centers. cross-docking is a logistics strategy in which freight is unloaded from inbound trucks and (almost) directly loaded into outbound trucks, with little or no storage in between, thus no inventory remains at the distribution center. in this paper, we consider...