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Complexity of flow time minimization in a crossdock truck scheduling problem with asymmetric handover relations

Authors :
Quentin Fabry
Alessandro Agnetis
Lotte Berghman
Cyril Briand
Équipe Recherche Opérationnelle, Optimisation Combinatoire et Contraintes (LAAS-ROC)
Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes (LAAS)
Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole)
Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse)
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)
Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3)
Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP)
Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse Capitole (UT Capitole)
Université de Toulouse (UT)
Department of Information engineering and mathematics [Siena]
Università degli Studi di Siena = University of Siena (UNISI)
Toulouse Business School (TBS)
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Source :
Operations Research Letters, Operations Research Letters, 2022, 50 (1), pp.50-56. ⟨10.1016/j.orl.2021.12.004⟩
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

International audience; We address a novel truck scheduling problem arising in crossdocking logistics, in which inbound trucks carry items (pallets) which must be sorted and loaded onto outbound trucks. We minimize the utilisation of the warehouse by focusing on the synchronisation between the different related trucks. The problem is to assign the trucks to the doors of the warehouse and sequence them, in order to minimize the total time spent in the system by the pallets. We discuss the complexity of the problem, showing that even with a single door the problem is NP-hard in general, and discuss some special cases.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01676377 and 18727468
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Operations Research Letters, Operations Research Letters, 2022, 50 (1), pp.50-56. ⟨10.1016/j.orl.2021.12.004⟩
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....49e1ee2154042c63f3477540b01b1408
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2021.12.004⟩