At cross docking terminals, shipments from inbound trucks are unloaded,sorted and moved to dispatch points where they are directly loaded onto out-bound trucks for an immediate delivery elsewhere in the distribution system.This warehouse management concept aims at realizing economies in...

Main description: Nach einer knappen Zusammenfassung graphentheoretischer Definitionen folgen eine allgemeine Darstellung des Prinzips und der Komponenten von Branch-and-Bound-Verfahren sowie prinzipieller Vorgehensweisen von Heuristiken. Kapitel 2 stellt mit der Behandlung von nichtlinearen...

At cross docking terminals incoming deliveries of inbound trucks are unloaded,sorted, moved across the dock and nally loaded onto outboundtrucks, which immediately leave the terminal towards their next destinationin the distribution chain. Accordingly, a cross dock is a consolidationpoint in a...