A dock-door assignment problem for the Korean mail distribution center

Toward a relevant agenda for warehousing research: literature review and practitioners’ input

“…The planning of receiving and shipping operations is among the least investigated topics in the literature. Some examples of potential problems to investigate are preparation of goods to be stored [53] and resource allocations, e.g., truck-dock assignment for receiving and delivery and order-truck assignment if orders of different customers are aggregated into one truck [54]. Receiving and shipping are the least investigated categories in the warehousing literature, with preparation operation and resource assignment as the main aspects explored.…”

Truck scheduling at zero-inventory cross docking terminals

“…see the summaries about hub location problems provided by [9,15], (ii) layout of the dock (see [4]), (iii) assignment of outbound destinations to dock doors [23,24,13,3,6,21].…”

A novel dynamic genetic algorithm-based method for vehicle scheduling in cross docking systems with frequent unloading operation

“…Cross docking systems attract many researches to study and develop the concept of cross docking as well as providing some methods in order to improve the efficiency of the cross docking systems. In this field, researchers have studied several cross docking related topics such as system design (Apte and Viswanathan, 2000;Santos et al 2013;Jayaraman and Ross, 2003;Sung and Song, 2003;Bartholdi and Gue, 2004;Sung and Yang;, simulation (Rohrer, 1995), vehicle routing (Mohtashami et al 2015;Lee et al, 2006;Wen et al, 2009), dock door assignment (Oh, 2006;Kuo, 2013), vehicle sequencing and scheduling (Bellanger et al 2013;Liao et al, 2012), distribution planning (Chen et al, 2006;Musa et al, 2010), and transshipment scheduling (Larbi et al, 2011). Since the scope of this paper is around vehicle scheduling, this subject is reviewed in more details as follows.…”