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Scheduling at an auction logistics centre with physical internet

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  • Xiang T.R. Kong
  • Jian Chen
  • Hao Luo
  • George Q. Huang

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Auction logistics centre (ALC) performs transshipment operation on auction products from their inbound-from-supplier transporters to their outbound-to-client transporters with goods trading functions. Major third-party trading service providers have solved technological problems of dealing with millions of simultaneous biddings. But logistics that fulfils the massive and lumpy auction demands in the centre is still challengeable. The lack of process visibility and synchronised schedule has made the congestion on material flow, especially for the trolley loading and auction trading stages. Space resource is wasted and auction products deteriorate as holding time increases. This paper aims to provide a first demonstration of scheduling for auctions of perishable goods using Physical Internet (PI). PI-enabled scheduling is vital to facilitate the decision-making process while ensuring required throughput time with large trading volumes. A PI-ALC is created to automate the flow of information and enable the flexible implementation of scheduling. Following the hybrid flowshop classification, a timely operation scheduling model is developed. A heuristic-based solution approach is proposed to minimise either makespan or value loss using a set of dispatching rules. Simulation experiments show that the dispatching--picking mechanisms have statistically significant interaction impacts on both performance criteria. Decision-makers should strike a balance between minimising makespan and value loss based upon the growth in the frozen buffer size. Finally, the sensitivity analyses justify that schedulers can flexibly select dispatching rules under various demand patterns and operation time windows, as well as system configurations and trolley sizes.

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  • Xiang T.R. Kong & Jian Chen & Hao Luo & George Q. Huang, 2016. "Scheduling at an auction logistics centre with physical internet," International Journal of Production Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(9), pages 2670-2690, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:tprsxx:v:54:y:2016:i:9:p:2670-2690
    DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2015.1117149
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