Multiple Crossdocks with Inventory and Time Windows

Multiple Crossdocks with Inventory and Time Windows

Crossdocking studies have mostly been concerned with the physical layout of a crossdock or on a single crossdock. In this work, we study a network of crossdocks taking into consideration delivery and pickup time windows, warehouse capacities and inventory-handling costs. Because of the complexity of...

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Main Authors: CHEN, Ping, GUO, Yunsong, LIM, Andrew, Rodrigues, Brian
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
Subjects:
Crossdocking
JIT
Heuristics
just-in-time
kanban
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/2456
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2004.06.002
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:Crossdocking studies have mostly been concerned with the physical layout of a crossdock or on a single crossdock. In this work, we study a network of crossdocks taking into consideration delivery and pickup time windows, warehouse capacities and inventory-handling costs. Because of the complexity of the problem, local search techniques are developed and used with simulated annealing and tabu search heuristics. Extensive experiments were conducted and results show that the heuristics outperform CPLEX, providing solutions in realistic timescales.

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