Cross-docking is a logistics strategy in which freight is unloaded from inbound vehicles and
(almost) directly loaded into outbound vehicles, with little or no storage in between. This …

With the ongoing trend of mass-customization and an increasing product variety, just-in-time
part logistics more and more becomes one of the greatest challenges in today's automobile …

The technique of cross-docking, which consists in unloading trucks, sorting the items they
contain and reloading them directly into outbound trucks in order to minimize temporary …

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 …

Cross-docking is a distribution strategy that enables the consolidation of less-than-truckload
shipments into full truckloads without long-term storage. Due to the absence of a storage …

The truck scheduling problem is one of the most challenging and important types of
scheduling with a large number of real-world applications in the area of logistics and cross …

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 …

Cross-docking is an approach in inventory management which can reduce inventories, lead
times and customer response time. In this strategy, products and shipments are unloaded …

Cross-docking is an effective logistics strategy that has long been employed in supply
chains with perishable products, where short processing time of goods is required. In this …

This paper addresses a vehicle routing problem with cross-docking (VRPCD) that considers
truck scheduling, splitting pickup and delivery orders with time-windows at supplier and …