Abstract:In less than truckload transportation, shippers collaborate to reduce their logistics costs by consolidating their transportation requests in the procurement of transportation services from a carrier for serving the requests. In this paper, we study shipper collaboration in forward and reverse logistics, in which multiple shippers with forward or/and reverse logistics operations consolidate their transportation requests. In the forward and reverse logistics, manufacturers deliver new products to their customer… Show more
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