ملخص
With the advent of lean supply-chain management, cross-docking has become increasingly popular among shippers. Operating a cross-dock facility requires assigning receiving and shipping doors to trailers. The assignment determines the amount of freight handling within the cross-dock facility and therefore its efficiency. Due to the immense complexity of optimal formulations, dock-door assignment has been typically solved using heuristics. This paper discusses the existing approaches, and suggests a new optimal formulation, and a new heuristic approach for assigning cross-dock doors to trailers. In the process, the reader gains insight into several important issues related to dock door assignment.
| اللغة الأصلية | الإنجليزيّة |
|---|---|
| الصفحات (من إلى) | 574-590 |
| عدد الصفحات | 17 |
| دورية | International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management |
| مستوى الصوت | 5 |
| رقم الإصدار | 5 |
| المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء | |
| حالة النشر | نُشِر - 2009 |