Designing Production-Inventory-Transportation Systems with Capacitated Cross-Docks

The authors consider a two-echelon supply chain problem, where the demand of a set of retailers is satisfied from a set of suppliers and shipped through a set of capacitated cross-docks that are to be established. The objective is to determine the number and location of cross-docks and the assignment of retailers to suppliers via cross-docking so that the total cost of pipeline and retailers inventory, transportation, and facility location is minimized. The authors formulate the problem as a nonlinear mixed integer programming. The authors first derive several structural results for special cases of the problem. The authors also demonstrate that the Capacitated Plant Fixed-Charge Transport Location Problem is a special case of the problem. To solve the general problem, the authors show that it can be written as a cutting stock problem and develop a column generation algorithm to solve it. The authors investigate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm numerically. The authors then extend the problem by allowing different truck capacities as decision variables.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.1120.0454
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstracts reprinted with permission of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, http://www.informs.org).
• Authors:
  • Abouee-Mehrizi, Hossein
  • Berman, Oded
  • Baharnemati, M Reza
• Publication Date: 2014-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 121-135
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 48
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Inventory; Mixed integer programming; Nonlinear programming; Supply chain management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cross-docking; Location problems; Track capacity
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01519628
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 26 2014 10:07AM