Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions

Wang, Xin; Kopfer, Herbert; Gendreau, Michel

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2014.02.056

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“…Wang et al [54] extended the conventional routing of own vehicles to an integrated operational transportation planning through the introduction of external resources, including vehicles from subcontractors and cooperating partners in horizontal cooperation's. Table V below summarizes the analysis of literature on joint routing and scheduling problems.…”

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Analysis of quantitative models of horizontal collaboration in supply chain network design: Towards “green collaborative” strategies

Amer

Eltawil

2015

2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)

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Horizontal collaboration is the pooling of logistics activities and consolidation of supply chains between two or more manufacturers for achieving mutual benefit. The concept of establishing horizontal relationships between supply chain partners has been first introduced by the European Union in 2001. Often, horizontal co-operation can lead to substantial economic benefits where it is a means of sharing risk, making cost savings, increasing investments, pooling know-how, in addition to the ecological benefit behind. To evaluate possible research directions in this area, this paper provides a review of quantitative models developed in literature for successfully establishing horizontal relationships between competing/non-competing partners. The paper also presents a solution framework for integrating green concepts along with the collaboration problem.

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Section: ) Operational Decisionsmentioning

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Analysis of quantitative models of horizontal collaboration in supply chain network design: Towards “green collaborative” strategies

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Eltawil

2015

2015 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)

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“…If collaborative decisions are made by a central authority having full information, this is referred to as centralized collaborative planning (e.g.,, and ). If players are not willing to give full information to a central planner, decentralized mechanisms are needed.…”

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“…In our study, we are focusing on auction‐based exchange mechanisms. However, readers interested in non‐auction based systems are referred to, for example,.…”

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The cost of incentive compatibility in auction‐based mechanisms for carrier collaboration

2018

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Collaboration has been one of the important trends in vehicle routing. A typical mechanism to enable carrier collaboration is to use combinatorial auctions, where requests are not traded individually but are combined into bundles. Previous literature on carrier collaboration has focused on issues such as bundle formation or winner determination, typically assuming truthfulness of all agents and absence of any strategic behavior. This article considers the interdependencies and problems that arise from bidders acting as buyers and sellers of requests at the same time. From standard auction theory, desirable properties of exchange mechanisms are identified as efficiency, incentive compatibility, individual rationality, and budget balance. It is shown that these desirable properties cannot be fulfilled at the same time. In particular, the properties efficiency and incentive compatibility induce that budget balance is violated, that is, an outside subsidy is required. We propose two incentive compatible exchange mechanisms. One is more closely related to the classical VCG approach, while the other one uses a more complicated concept for computing payments to participants. A numerical study investigates how frequently desired properties are violated. We show that both mechanisms can be acceptable in practical situations, but none of them can satisfy all desired properties.

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“…Also, some mechanisms could achieve around 95% of the potential savings. Wang, Kopfer and Gendreau (2014) combined the integrated operation transporta-tion planning (IOTP) (Krajewska and Kopfer, 2009) and the collaborative transportation planning (CTP) . The IOTP is related to carriers that carefully assign the most profitable orders to their fleet and subcontract other carriers for the remaining orders.…”

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“…The CTP is defined as a joint decision making to satisfy transportation orders among partners in a horizontal collaboration scheme. Wang, Kopfer and Gendreau (2014) extend the pickup and delivery problem with time windows to accommodate the decisions related to IOTP and CTP. The results showed that adding the exchange of requests to the subcontracting strategy can reduce costs by more than 10% on average.…”

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Consolidation problems in freight transportation systems: mathematical models and algorithms

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Freight distribution systems are under stress. With the world population growing, the migration of people to urban areas and technologies that allow purchases from virtually anywhere, efficient freight distribution can be challenging. An inefficient movement of goods may lead to business not being economically viable and also has social and environmental negative effects. An important strategy to be incorporated in freight distribution systems is the consolidation of goods, i.e., group goods by their destination. This strategy increases vehicles utilisation, reducing the number of vehicles and the number of trips required for the distribution and, consequently, costs, traffic, noise and air pollution. In this thesis, we explore consolidation in three different contexts (or cases) from an optimisation point of view. Each context is related to optimisation problems for which we developed mathematical programming models and solution methods.

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Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions

Cited by 65 publications

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Analysis of quantitative models of horizontal collaboration in supply chain network design: Towards “green collaborative” strategies

Analysis of quantitative models of horizontal collaboration in supply chain network design: Towards “green collaborative” strategies

The cost of incentive compatibility in auction‐based mechanisms for carrier collaboration

Consolidation problems in freight transportation systems: mathematical models and algorithms

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Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions

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Analysis of quantitative models of horizontal collaboration in supply chain network design: Towards &#x201C;green collaborative&#x201D; strategies

The cost of incentive compatibility in auction‐based mechanisms for carrier collaboration

Consolidation problems in freight transportation systems: mathematical models and algorithms

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Analysis of quantitative models of horizontal collaboration in supply chain network design: Towards “green collaborative” strategies

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