One most important and critical problem in a cross-docking system is truck scheduling. Many studies it assumed that the temporary storage unlimited which real world, limited. focus on minimizing total completion time. Meanwhile, are hard to find, although this aspect very important. Due its complexity, especially with multiproduct characteristics, manual scheduling almost impossible achieve goa...

Cross docking terminals allow companies to reduce storage and transportation costs in a supply chain. At these terminals, products of different types from incoming trucks are unloaded, sorted, and loaded to outgoing trucks for delivery. If the designated outgoing truck is not immediately available for some products, they are temporarily stocked in a small storage area available at the terminal....

Cross-docking is a logistic technique in which distribution centers are the transfer points to coordinate the continuous physical flow through supply chain with no storage. The harmonization of this system in a network of cross-docks with customers and suppliers requires a effective planning. This paper addresses the distribution planning problem of cross-docking network considering the transpo...

Cross docking is one of the options to reduce lead times and inventories and to improve customer response time in supply chains. Cross-docking centres are dynamic environments where products arrive, are regrouped, and leave the same day. In this paper we focus on the process of short-term storage of unit-loads in a cross-docking environment. The goal is to determine temporary storage locations ...

The globalization of production and service enterprises increased the complexity of supply chain systems and processes. The complexity of supply problems leaded to the development of new shipment strategies. The optimal design of supply chain is an important success factor of the economical operation of enterprises. Within the frame of this paper the author compare the costs of the direct shipm...