Abstract:<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Cross-docking is a kind of process that products are unloaded in front of the inbound doors, consolidated based on the downstream demand, and then directly transferred to the outbound doors without a long storage process during the transportation. In this paper, a multi-door cross-dock truck scheduling problem is investigated in which the scheduling and sequencing assignment of trucks need to be considered, with the objectives of minimizing the inner transportation cost in th… Show more
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