| Autor: |
Korhan Acar, Daniel Yankov, Ali Yalcin |
| Rok vydání: |
2012 |
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| Zdroj: |
Computers & Industrial Engineering. 63:729-738 |
| ISSN: |
0360-8352 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.cie.2012.04.008 |
| Popis: |
The assignment of incoming trailers to strip doors is one of the critical decisions that affect the performance of cross docking operations in less-than-truckload terminals. This paper introduces a mixed integer quadratic model with the objective of generating trailer-to-door assignments that equally distribute idle times at doors to accommodate operational level uncertainty encountered in truck arrival times. A door assignment heuristic is presented. The performance of the heuristic is compared with optimal solutions to small problems. The effectiveness of the proposed heuristic is studied under a variety of circumstances and terminal sizes. The simulation results show that the proposed heuristic is applicable to realistic-size terminals, and it is effective when variability in truck arrival and service times is considered. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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