Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

3-2020

Abstract

Cross-docking is a logistic technique that can reduce costs occurred in a supply chain network while increasing the flow of goods, thus shortening the shipping cycle. Inside a cross-dock facility, the goods are directly transferred from incoming vehicles to outgoing vehicles without storing them in-between. Our research extends and combines this cross-docking technique with a well-known logistic problem, the vehicle routing problem (VRP), for delivering multiple products and addresses it as the VRP for multi-product cross-docking (VRP-MPCD). We developed a mixed integer programming model and generated two sets of VRP-MPCD instances, which are based on VRPCD instances. The instances are solved by a commercial software AMPL with CPLEX solver. The findings show that the small instances can be solved optimally by CPLEX. However, larger instances cannot be solved optimally within predefined computational times.

Keywords

Vehicle routing problem, Cross-docking, Multiple products, Mathematical programming model

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Operations and Supply Chain Management | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 2020: Dubai, UAE, March 10-12

First Page

66

Last Page

77

ISBN

9781532359521

Publisher

IEOM Society

City or Country

Southfield, MI

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