Scheduling Coordinated Trucks at Zero-Inventory Cross-Docking Terminal
In the food industry, cool chain is closely related with a set of technologies to ensure the safety and quality of fresh foods against decay. When the foods are transferred through a cross-docking terminal, the goods cannot be kept in the storage area for a long time. The unloaded units must be transferred to the outbound trucks with refrigerators. This type of cross-docking terminal is called zero-inventory cross-docking terminal. Therefore, when the outbound truck with specific target customers waits in the outbound door, the trucks with required goods must be arranged in the inbound doors for unloading. Therefore, it is important to synchronize inbound and outbound trucks. The truck scheduling problem of zero-inventory cross-docking terminal has been studied in literature. However, previous models with strong presumptions are usually solved with dynamic programming. In this study, the problem is modeled as an integer programming model where presumptions are reduced to cater for practical applications and can be solved easily with commercial operational research packages.
zero inventory cross-docking terminal integer programming door assignment truck scheduling
Zhi-Hua Hu
Logistics Research Center, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 200135, P. R. China School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
国际会议
The Tenth International Conference on Information and Management Sciences(IMS)(第十届信息与管理科学国际会议)
拉萨
英文
89-95
2011-08-06（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）