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...

The management of trucks in a cross-docking platform is a process under five steps: the arrival, the control, the unloading, the transfer and finally the loading. In each of these steps, a sequence of decisions arise. To achieve an optimal and robust solutions, the interdependencies between the different planning functions should be taken into account, and scheduling decisions must be made simu...

Mathematical modeling of supply chain operations has proven to be one of the most complex tasks in the field of operations management and operations research. Despite the abundance of several modeling proposals in the literature; for vast majority of them, no effective universal application is conceived. This issue renders the proposed mathematical models inapplicable due largely to the fact th...

Due to mismanagement of supply chain operations, fresh produce, which deteriorates highly depending on time and operating environment (including temperature humidity), will suffer huge losses in transit, resulting substantial monetary losses. Cross-docking, as an efficient logistics operation strategy, has been widely used produce distribution the cold chain, whereas it not received adequate at...

in this paper we address the vrpcd, in which a set of homogeneous vehicles are used to transport products from the suppliers to customers via a cross-dock. the products can be consolidated at the cross-dock but cannot be stored for very long as the cross-dock does not have long-term inventory-holding capabilities. the objective of the vrpcd is to minimize the total traveled distance while respe...

cross docking is a logistic strategy that plays the role of a middle knot in distribution network in the provision process. in logistic part, inventory holding is considered as an important matter in managing costs. not only cross docking reduces the inventory holding cost, but it also reduces the cost of collecting received orders, transportation and duration of sending. the products, which ar...

Cross-docking is a warehousing strategy in logistics used by process industries making products with high proportions of distribution costs. It is described as the process of moving goods from suppliers to customers through a cross-dock terminal without a long-term storage in this facility. The vehicle routing problem with cross-docking (VRPCD) consists of fulfilling a set of transportation req...

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...

Multi-echelon distribution networks are quite common in supply chain and logistics. Deliveries of multiple items from factories to customers aremanagedby routing and consolidating shipments inwarehouses carrying on long-term inventories. On the other hand, cross-docking is a logistics technique that differs from warehousing because products are no longer stored at intermediate depots. Instead, ...