Scheduling cross docking operations under full, partial and no information on inbound arrivals

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 889-900

  Larbi, Rim ^a   Alpan, Glgn ^a   Baptiste, Pierre ^b   Penz, Bernard ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE G SCOP   (France)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross docking; Heuristics; Logistics; Scheduling; Value of information

Indexed keywords

COMPLETE INFORMATION; CROSSDOCKING; DELIVERY TIME; HEURISTICS; INVENTORY HOLDING; OPTIMAL GRAPHS; ORDER PICKING; POLYNOMIAL-TIME ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING POLICIES; SCHEDULING PROBLEM; TRANSPORTATION COST; VALUE OF INFORMATION;

AUTOMOBILES; DOCKS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; TRUCKS;

DOCKING;

EID: 78549247074     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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