Cross-docking is a logistics concept, which integrates intermediate nodes into a
transportation network so that shipments are consolidated to full truckloads and economies …

In this work, we study a new shipment consolidation and transportation problem in
crossdocking distribution networks that considers trade-offs between transportation costs …

A significant part of price of each product is related to distribution process. Therefore, by
controlling this process, a good improvement will be observed in not only net profit of related …

Landings are an integral part of modern whole-tree harvesting operations in pine plantations
in New Zealand. However, little information has been published about size of landings and …

The multi-level production problem is one of the challenging research areas in supply chain
management. We present brief literature review and mathematical models of multi-level just …

The operational improvement of cross-docking centres in the literature involves job
scheduling, layout design and dock assignment. The mentioned research is mainly …

The cross docking is an innovative distribution strategy for transshipment of time-sensitive
products. In this research we develop a model for scheduling of a cross docking warehouse …

Cross-docking is an important transportation logistics strategy in supply chain management
which reduces transportation costs, inventory holding costs, order-picking costs and …

An Urban Distribution Center (UDC) is a useful City Logistics policy instrument. A UDC is a
logistic site dedicated to decompose and consolidate freight directed to the city, by planning …

Providing consistent and fault-tolerant distributed object services is among the fundamental
problems in distributed computing. To achieve fault-tolerance and to increase throughput …