The Truck Scheduling Problem at Crossdocking Terminals - Exclusive versus Mixed Mode

L. Berghman, C. Briand, R. Leus, P. Lopez

2015

Abstract

In this paper we study the scheduling of the docking operations of trucks at a warehouse; each truck is either empty and needs to be loaded, or full and has to be unloaded (but not both). We focus on crossdocking, which is a recent warehouse concept that favors the transfers of as many incoming products as possible directly to outgoing trailers, without intermediate storage in the warehouse. We propose a time-indexed integer programming formulation for scheduling the loading and unloading of the trucks at the docks, and we distinguish between a so-called “mixed mode”, in which some or all of the docks can be used both for loading as well as unloading, and an “exclusive mode”, in which each dock is dedicated to only one of the two types of operations. Computational experiments are provided to compare the efficiency of the two modes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Berghman L., Briand C., Leus R. and Lopez P. (2015). The Truck Scheduling Problem at Crossdocking Terminals - Exclusive versus Mixed Mode . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-075-8, pages 247-253. DOI: 10.5220/0005205102470253

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores15,
author={L. Berghman and C. Briand and R. Leus and P. Lopez},
title={The Truck Scheduling Problem at Crossdocking Terminals - Exclusive versus Mixed Mode},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2015},
pages={247-253},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005205102470253},
isbn={978-989-758-075-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - The Truck Scheduling Problem at Crossdocking Terminals - Exclusive versus Mixed Mode
SN - 978-989-758-075-8
AU - Berghman L.
AU - Briand C.
AU - Leus R.
AU - Lopez P.
PY - 2015
SP - 247
EP - 253
DO - 10.5220/0005205102470253