Scheduling incoming and outgoing trucks at cross docking terminals to minimize the storage cost

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 423-440

  Sadykov, Ruslan ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Cross docking; Dynamic programming; Logistics; Storage cost; Truck scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870514411     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-012-1232-0     Document Type: Article

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