Proactive Order Consolidation in Global Sourcing

Distribution System with Flow Consolidation at the Boundary of Urban Congested Areas

“…The decisions in urban distribution should not affect the commercial dynamism and attractiveness of cities for housing and other activities [4][5][6][7]. The flow of goods related to urban logistics, by size, frequency and structure are considered as being part of the large distribution [8][9][10][11], characterized by a flexible movement logic specific to the consumer goods (agri-food products, confections, household equipment, etc.) of large or medium series, but very differentiated (high number of references in a range).…”

Logistics capacity planning: A stochastic bin packing formulation and a progressive hedging meta-heuristic

“…The efficient consolidation of goods for movement and storage is essential for companies that aim to be competitive in the market and fulfill customer demand in a cost-efficient and flexible manner (Crainic et al, 2013b). Modern companies manufacture or acquire goods that are then consolidated into appropriate containers, which are in turn consolidated for long-distance, often international, transportation into ships or trains.…”

Shipment consolidation and distribution models in the international supply chain

“…Attanasio et al (2007) work on the integrated shipment dispatching and packing problem in a case study. Crainic et al (2009) firstly illustrate the concept: "proactive order consolidation" and apply bin packing model and simulation method to evaluate three strategies of the integration of inventory and transportation. However, there are several important issues which are not considered in their models, such as multi-modal transportation, the integration of transportation, packing and inventory.…”

“…Results show that the algorithm achieves significant savings over the current manual procedure. Crainic et al (2009) study the proactive order consolidation strategy in the global retail supply chain. In the paper, the international procurement process, the roles and functions of merchandizing, purchasing and logistics in the supply are analyzed.…”

“…In our study, marine and road (TL and LTL) transportation modes are used to transport freight from China to multiple destinations in US, while other studies consider only single transportation mode. For example, Tyan et al (2003), Attanasio et al (2007) and Crainic et al (2009) investigate the international consolidation problem with air, road and marine transportation mode, respectively. Second, more issues are integrated into our mathematical model, such as mode selection, three-dimensional bin packing problem and handling operations.…”