Many supply chain stakeholders rely on the cross-docking concept, according to which
products delivered in specific transportation management units to the cross-docking terminal …

Cross-docking is a logistics procedure implemented in a warehouse to achieve a
competitive advantage by consolidating and transferring goods directly from an inbound …

Parcel hub (PH), as one of the logistic system entities, plays a significant role in delivering
packages. PH operations are identical to a cross-docking system. Numerous studies were …

As an important support of the e-commerce industry, the express delivery industry is
particularly important in national development. Low loading rates caused by numerous types …

Global logistics are increasingly important owing to shifting paradigm by strategically
focusing on core competences, outsourcing manufacturing to pursue higher value …

The ongoing container shortage crisis has presented significant challenges for the freight
forwarding industry, requiring companies to implement adaptive measures in order to …

In this article, a new deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) model is proposed to solve the
Single Container Loading Problem (SCLP) as well as the SCLP with full support. For that …

In the perfect rectangle packing problem, a set of rectangular items have to be placed inside
a rectangular container without overlap or empty space. In this paper, we generate a large …

Cutting and packing problems are hard combinatorial optimization problems that arise in
several manufacturing and process industries or in their supply chains. The solution of these …

In distribution logistics, the planning of vehicles' routes and vehicles' loads are traditionally
managed separately, despite these activities are correlated. This often leads to various re …