Crossdocking distribution networks with setup cost and time window constraint

Omega

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-72

  Ma, Hong ^a   Miao, Zhaowei ^b   Lim, Andrew ^a   Rodrigues, Brian ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crossdocking; Heuristics; Integer program; Transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953680104     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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