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Dock sharing in cross-docking facilities of the postal service industry

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  • Michael Zenker
  • Nils Boysen

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In cross-docks, incoming shipments are unloaded, moved across the facility, and loaded into outbound trucks, such that truck load factors are increased and transportation costs are reduced. In this context, we treat the question which outbound destinations should share a dock if not enough docking space is available to process each destination via its separate dock door. We aim at a partition of destinations (among docks), such that fixed processing intervals do not overlap and the maximum inventory accumulating in the staging areas is minimized. We define the resulting dock sharing problem specifically addressing the peculiarities of the postal service industry, investigate computational complexity, and provide solution procedures.

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  • Michael Zenker & Nils Boysen, 2018. "Dock sharing in cross-docking facilities of the postal service industry," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 69(7), pages 1061-1076, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:tjorxx:v:69:y:2018:i:7:p:1061-1076
    DOI: 10.1057/s41274-017-0289-1
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    1. Dulebenets, Maxim A., 2019. "A Delayed Start Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm for just-in-time truck scheduling at a cross-docking facility," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 212(C), pages 236-258.
    2. Guo, Peng & Weidinger, Felix & Boysen, Nils, 2019. "Parallel machine scheduling with job synchronization to enable efficient material flows in hub terminals," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 110-121.
    3. Hans Corsten & Ferdinand Becker & Hagen Salewski, 2020. "Integrating truck and workforce scheduling in a cross-dock: analysis of different workforce coordination policies," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 90(2), pages 207-237, March.
    4. Boysen, Nils & Schwerdfeger, Stefan & W． Ulmer, Marlin, 2023. "Robotized sorting systems: Large-scale scheduling under real-time conditions with limited lookahead," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 310(2), pages 582-596.

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