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Inbound and Outbound Truck Scheduling to Minimize the Number of Items Unable to Ship in Cross Docking Terminals with a Time Window

작업시간창이 주어진 크로스토킹 터미널에서 미 선적 물량 최소화를 위한 입출고 트럭 일정계획

  • Joo, Cheol-Min (Industrial and Management Engineering, Dongseo University) ;
  • Kim, Byung-Soo (Graduate School of Management of Technology, Pukyong National University)
  • 주철민 (동서대학교 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 김병수 (부경대학교 기술경영(MOT) 일반대학원)
  • Received : 2011.09.10
  • Accepted : 2011.11.14
  • Published : 2011.12.01
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Abstract

This paper considers the inbound and outbound truck scheduling problem in a cross docking terminal. The unloading process from inbound trucks and loading process to outbound trucks are assumed to be performed within a time window. If some items are not able to be loaded to their scheduled outbound trucks within the time window, they are stored in the terminal and shipped using the truck visiting the next time window. The objective of this paper is to schedule inbound and outbound trucks to minimize the number of items unable to ship within the time window. A mathematical model for an optimal solution is derived, and a rule-based local search heuristic algorithm and genetic algorithm (GA) are proposed. The performance of the algorithms are evaluated using randomly generated several examples.

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