An evaluation of new heuristics for the location of cross-docks distribution centers in supply chain network design

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-79

  Ross, Anthony ^a   Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross docking; Meta heuristics; Simulated annealing; Supply chain network design; TABU search

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; DOCKS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; KETONES; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PAPER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STEEL ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; TABU SEARCH; WAREHOUSES;

COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); CONVERGENCE RESULTS; CROSS-DOCKING; DISTRIBUTION CENTER (DC); EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (ED); GEOMETRIC CONTROL; HEURISTIC CONTROL; INTERACTION EFFECTS; LOCATION MODELING; LOCATION PLANNING; LOCATION PROBLEMS; MANUFACTURING PLANTS; NETWORK DESIGNS; OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PAPER ADDRESSES; PRODUCT FAMILIES; RETAIL OUTLETS; SIMULATED ANNEALING (SA); SOLUTION PROCEDURES; SOLUTION TIME; SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK DESIGN;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 44649132578     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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