“…This planning commonly deals with the short-term planning horizon such as daily or weekly. Studies under cross docking operational planning can be divided into five major problem areas which are scheduling problem (Arabani et al, 2012;Boysen, 2010;Mentzer et al, 2011), dock door assignment problem (Aickelin and Adewunmi, 2008;Berghman et al, 2011), transhipment problem (Larbi et al, 2009;Miao et al, 2010), vehicle routing problem (Dondo et al, 2011) and product allocation problem such as in Li et al (2008). An overall cross docking planning and decision levels can be summarized as in Fig.…”