Effective supply chain management (SCM) is currently recognized as a key determinant of competitiveness and success for most manufacturing and retailing organizations, because the implementation of supply chain management has significant impact on cost, service level, and quality. Numerous strategies for archiving these targets have been proposed and investigated in both practice and academic o...

Transshipment yards, where gantry cranes allow for an e cient transshipment of containers between di erent freight trains, are important entities in modern railway systems and facilitate the general shift from point-to-point transport to hub-and-spoke railway systems. Modern rail-rail transshipment yards accelerate container handling, so that multiple smaller trains with equal destination can b...

We investigate the hardness of approximating a transshipment problem with a permutable transit vector. We have already known that the transshipment problem of minimizing the total shipping cost is NP-hard. In this paper, we prove that even if the unit shipping cost associated with every arc is given as a positive integer, there is no polynomial time constant factor approximation algorithm for t...

In this research, we apply a discrete event simulation approach to explore how enterprises in the Chinese mainland make a successful operation with the aid of e-commerce. This paper examines the effects of proposed four kinds of transshipment operation network structures on the performance under different policies of transshipment and inventory allocation. Results show that: 1) transshipment ba...

In multi-location inventory systems, transshipments are often used to improve customer service and reduce cost. Determining optimal transshipment policies for such systems involves a complex optimisation problem that is only tractable for systems with few locations. Consequently simple heuristic transshipment policies are often applied in practice. This paper develops an approximate solution me...

This paper introduces the concept of transshipment networks, a collection of strategically located transshipment platforms, for efficient and flexible last-mile delivery in congested urban areas. By implementing transshipment platforms, logistics operators can select the locations, light-freight vehicle types and operating schedules that best fit specific distribution strategies, and, simultane...

The fuzzy transportation problem in which available commodity frequently moves from one source to another source or destination before reaching its actual destination is called a fuzzy transshipment problem. In this paper, a new method is proposed to find the fuzzy optimal solution of fuzzy transportation problems with the following transshipment: From a source to any another source, from a des...

This paper deals with fuzzy transshipment problem in which available commodity frequently moves from one source to another source before reaching its actual destination. Here Max – Min method is introduced to find initial feasible solution for the large scale fuzzy transshipment problem. Mathematics Subject Classification: 03E72

We present a method for solving the transshipment problem—also known as uncapacitated minimum cost flow—up to a multiplicative error of 1 + in undirected graphs with polynomially bounded integer edge weights using a tailored gradient descent algorithm. An important special case of the transshipment problem is the single-source shortest paths (SSSP) problem. Our gradient descent algorithm takes ...

Shrinkage can lead to inventory record inaccuracy which in turn may negatively affect the performance of supply chain control policies. In this paper the impact of shrinkage on the efficiency of transshipment operations is demonstrated using stochastic simulation. In particular, the value of full inventory visibility which could be achieved using RFID is approximated. This value is shown to be ...