期刊名称:International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
印刷版ISSN:1923-2926
电子版ISSN:1923-2934
出版年度:2012
卷号:3
期号:5
页码:777-786
DOI:10.5267/j.ijiec.2012.08.001
语种:English
出版社:Growing Science Publishing Company
摘要:Cross docking play an important role in management of supply chains where items delivered to a warehouse by inbound trucks are directly sorted out, reorganized based on customer demands, routed and loaded into outbound trucks for delivery to customers without virtually keeping them at the warehouse. If any item is held in storage, it is usually for a short time, which is normally less than 24 hours. The proposed model of this paper considers a special case of cross docking where there is temporary storage and uses GRASP technique to solve the resulted problem for some realistic test problems. In our method, we first use some heuristics as initial solutions and then improve the final solution using GRASP method. The preliminary test results indicate that the GRASP method performs better than alternative solution strategies.