Cross-docking: State of the art

Omega

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 827-846

  Van Belle, Jan ^a   Valckenaers, Paul ^a   Cattrysse, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classification; Cross docking; Logistics

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; CLASSIFIEDS; CROSSDOCKING; LOGISTICS STRATEGY; OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS; STATE OF THE ART; TACTICALS;

DOCKING;

EID: 84858748274     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2012.01.005     Document Type: Review

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