Nguyen, Christine; Dessouky, Maged; Toriello, Alejandro - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 69 (2014) C, pp. 108-121
A set of agricultural suppliers with low demands can save on long-haul transportation costs by consolidating their product. We consider a system with stochastic demand and a single consolidation point near the suppliers. We propose a look-ahead heuristic that takes advantage of economies of...