Transportation Procurement with Seasonally Varying Shipper Demand and Volume Guarantees

• Main Authors: LIM, Andrew, RODRIGUES, Brian, XU, Zhou
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• 主題: transportation; models; assignment; transportation allocation; programming; integer applications; large-scale integer optimization; industrial; transportation/shipping; transportation procurement optimization; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/584; https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1070.0481
• 機構: Singapore Management University

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...