Transportation Procurement with Seasonally Varying Shipper Demand and Volume Guarantees

Transportation Procurement with Seasonally Varying Shipper Demand and Volume Guarantees

Transportation companies that operate in seasonal markets where differences in demand occur in peak and nonpeak periods often negotiate for some form of demand smoothing with the customer i.e., the shipper. In this paper, we study a shipper's transportation procurement model, in which the shipp...

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Main Authors: LIM, Andrew, RODRIGUES, Brian, XU, Zhou
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
Subjects:
transportation
models
assignment
transportation allocation
programming
integer applications
large-scale integer optimization
industrial
transportation/shipping
transportation procurement optimization
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/584
https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1070.0481
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/584
https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1070.0481

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