At cross docking terminals incoming deliveries of inbound trucks are unloaded, sorted,
moved across the dock and finally loaded onto outbound trucks, which immediately leave …

This paper provides a comprehensive literature review of mathematical models in cross
docking planning. From the reviews, the models are classified in three different levels …

At cross docking terminals, shipments from inbound trucks are unloaded, sorted and moved
to dispatch points where they are directly loaded onto outbound trucks for an immediate …

Handling freight at cross docking terminals constitutes a complex planning task which
comprises several executive steps as shipments delivered by inbound trucks are to be …

This paper addresses the transportation problem of cross-docking network where the loads
are transferred from origins (suppliers) to destinations (retailers) through cross-docking …

In a cross-docking system, trucks must be scheduled to minimize the total flow time of the
system. This problem is NP-hard, and this study proposes two hybrid meta-heuristics …

This paper addresses a scheduling problem of inbound and outbound trailers in a cross-
docking system according to just-in-time approach. In the cross-docking system …

Many warehouses store at least some goods in two areas, a reserve area that is efficient for
storage and a forward area that is efficient for order picking. The forward-reserve allocation …

Cross-docking operation is a logistics service mode aims to remove the storage and picking
up functions of a warehouse, and coordinate goods loading between delivery vehicles and …

A model is developed for both time and space scheduling of inbound and outbound trucks at
a cross-dock facility under various objectives. Three different objectives in optimizing cross …