An automated system for motor carrier selection

Edisi

Vol. 103 Iss 7 pp. 533 - 539

ISBN/ISSN

0263-5577

Deskripsi Fisik

9 p.

Judul Seri

Industrial Management & Data Systems

No. Panggil

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Storage space allocation in container terminals

Container terminals are essential intermodal interfaces in the global transportation network. Efficient container handling at terminals is important in reducing transportation costs and keeping shipping schedules. In this paper, we study the storage space allocation problem in the storage yards of terminals. This problem is related to all the resources in terminal operations, including quay …

Terminal location and guide path design in terminal based AGV systems

In this paper, an operational scheme based on a terminal option is adopted for movements of an Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV). An integer programming model is proposed to obtain optimal discrete locations of teminals along with guide path directions. Sensitivity analysis with respect to key parameters is provided. Various penalty parameters are recommended to gain insight into dimerent practica…

Optimal pricing and terminal location for a rail–truck intermodal service �…

To be competitive with other modes of transport, railways need to be cost-effective. In order to become more competitive in the logistics sector, Indian Railways has taken new initiatives to improve their operations in recent years. A rail–truck intermodal transportation service for Indian Railways is described in this paper. The main focus of the research presented in this paper is on the jo…

Firm-specific Effects on Location Decisions of Foreign Direct Investment in C…

HONG J. (2007) Firm-specific effects on location decisions of foreign direct investment in China’s logistics industry, Regional Studies 41, 673–683. This paper uses conditional logit models to investigate firms-specific effects on location decisions of foreign direct investment in China’s logistics industry. Based on a recent census database, the empirical results indicate that the import…

Extending the lifecycle of container mainports in upstream urban locations

My article in the June 1996 issue of this journal considered the relocation of container handling facilities for the largest deep-sea vessels from upstream urban ports to downstream terminals at coastal locations [I]. It was argued in the article that two upstream urban ports (Antwerp and Hamburg) have been unable to relocate their mainport function due principally to territorial (and hence pol…

Establishing an order allocation decision support system via learning curve m…

Apparel firms confront the problem with effective order allocation among factories when conducting global logistics operations. The problem is non-deterministic polynomial-time hard and often complicated to obtain an optimal solution. This research tried to solve, by heuristic method, the problem via applying the learning curve to the capacity planning to improve the decision-making on global l…

Deriving decision rules to locate export containers in container yards

A methodology is proposed to determine the storage location of an arriving export container considering its weight. We consider the con®guration of the container stack and the weight distribution of containers in the yard-bay. A dynamic programming model is formulated to determine the storage location to minimize the number of relocation movements expected for the loading operation. We also de…

Concepts of strategic commercial location: the case of container ports

A world that shrinks with progressive improvements in transportation andcommunications is a fact of 20th century life. The shrinking process can produce new patterns and perceptions of strategic location. In this paper we are looking specifically at nodes in transportation systems. In the light of transportation progress, we re-consider some of the time-worn ideas about centrality, accessibilit…

Biased random key genetic algorithm for the Tactical Berth Allocation Problem

The Tactical Berth Allocation Problem (TBAP) aims to allocate incoming ships to berthing positions andassign quay crane profiles to them (i.e. number of quay cranes per time step). The goals of the TBAPare both the minimization of the housekeeping costs derived from the transshipment container flowsbetween ships, and the maximization of the total value of the quay crane profiles assigned to the…

A note on a dynamic space-allocation method for outbound containers

Storage space is a critical resource in port container terminals. This paper discusses how to allocate storage space for outbound containers that will arrive at a storage yard. The main objectives of space allocation are to utilize space efficiently and make loading operations more efficient. Objective functions and constraints of both the direct and the indirect transfer systems are described …

An object-based relational data base system using re-configurable finance and…

Any manufacturing information system today must be able to both “reconfigure” and “reengineer” operations in a costeffective way. The objective of this paper is to propose an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system based on the re-configurable characteristics of material objects (MO) and finance objects (FO). The implementation of this information system is based on the object technol…

An emergency order allocation model based on multi-provider in two-echelon lo…

On one side, the purpose of this paper is to numerically analyze the emergency order allocation mechanism and help managers to understand the relationship between the emergency coefficient, uncertainty and emergency cost in two-echelon logistics service supply chain. On the other side, the purpose of this paper is to help managers understand how to deal with the problem of order allocation in t…

A multi-objective logistics model for a capacitated service facility problem

There have been numerous extensions of the maximum covering location problem that has been developed in the last decade to deal with facility location. Most of the research, however, addresses a single attribute or objective. In the case when a single criterion such as minimizing average response time to access a service facility is insufficient to address the interests of the decision maker, m…

A supply chain configuration model for reassessing global manufacturing in China

Global manufacturers have faced unprecedented cost pressures in China because of Chinese currency appreciation, rising labour costs, higher oil prices and reduced value-added tax rebates. This paper aims to reassess the decision of operating global manufacturing facilities in China.

An integrated container management model for optimizing slot allocation plan …

This article proposes an integrated container management model to jointly optimize slot allocation plan for loaded containers and reposition for empty containers in a shipping network. The proposed model employs linear programming to formulate loaded and empty container shipping problems in a bi-level structure. In upper level the loaded container slot allocation plan aims to maximize operation…

How should the sustainability of the location of dry ports be measured?

The global economic structure, with its decentralized production and the consequent increase in freight traffic all over the world, creates considerable problems and challenges for the freight transport sector. This situation has led shipping to become the most suitable and cheapest way to transport goods. Thus, ports are configured as nodes with critical importance in the logistics supply chai…

Transportation, facility location and inventory issues in distribution networ…

Examines the interdependence between facility location, transportation and inventory issues in a distribution network design problem. Management of inventories, determination of transportation policy, and location of plants and distribution centers are normally carried out by different groups of people in an organization. These activities interact, however, when the transportation is used to re…

Managing stock-outs effectively with order fulfilment systems

When approaching a stock-out situation, a company should be able to actively manage the allocation of available products on the basis of customer requirements and priorities as well as contractual relationships. The purpose of this paper is to describe different order promising mechanisms and analyze how well they can contribute to the effective management of stock-out situations.

An optimization model for storage yard management in transshipment hubs

This paper studies a yard storage allocation problem in a transshipment hub where there is a great number of loading and unloading activities. The primary challenge is to efficiently shift containers between the vessels and the storage area so that reshuffling and traffic congestion is minimized. In particular, to reduce reshuffling, a consignment strategy is used. This strategy groups unloaded…

Remanufacturing in Asia: location choice and outsourcing

Remanufacturing is a process whereby value from old products is recovered by replacing and recovering used components to bring such products to a new or like-new state. Today, both original equipmentmanufacturers (OEMs) and third parties are engaged in remanufacturing activities, investing in many locations throughout Asia. The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons for initiating rema…

Warehouse Location Decision Factors in Humanitarian Relief Logistics

Edisi

Volume 29 Number 1 April 2013

ISBN/ISSN

-

Deskripsi Fisik

18 p.

Judul Seri

Logistic The Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics

No. Panggil

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An application of centralized data envelopment analysis in resource allocatio…

This paper presents an application of centralized data envelopment analysis (CDEA) to analyse the performance of a number of container terminals supervised by one liner shipping company. It provides a systematic and centralized perspective of resource reallocation based on one company’s perspective. The numerical results show that two of the
ve dedicated terminals are, by and large, ef
cient…

A genetic algorithm to solve the storage space allocation problem in a contai…

In this paper, an efficient genetic algorithm (GA) is presented to solve an extended storage space allocation problem (SSAP) in a container terminal. The SSAP is defined as the temporary allocation of the inbound/outbound containers to the storage blocks at each time period with aim of balancing the workload between blocks in order to minimize the storage/retrieval times of containers. An exten…

A heuristic algorithm for yard truck scheduling and storage allocation problems

The yard truck scheduling and the storage allocation are two important decision problems affecting the efficiency of container terminal operations. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates these two problems into a whole. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of total delay of requests and the total travel time of yard trucks. Due to the intractability of the proposed proble…

A decision support system to facilitate resources allocation: an OLAP-based n…

The emergence of advanced information technologies strengthens the capability to the entrepreneur to manage and manipulate data. However, the quality of information, the capability of providing the right information to the right person, and the utilization of information are still in doubt. Therefore, increasing numbers of firms have realized and started to develop as well as improve their exis…

Integrated berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem : set partition…

Most of the operational problems in container terminals are strongly interconnected. In this paper, we study the integrated Berth Allocation and Quay Crane Assignment Problem in seaport container terminals. We will extend the current state-of-the-art by proposing novel set partitioning models. To improve the performance of the set partitioning formulations, a number of variable reduction techni…

Location of mid-range dry ports in multimodal logistic networks

In the recent literature a lot of attention has been given to intermodal transportation networks, mainly related to inland freight mobility. In particular, the landside distribution of maritime containers from/to seaports has been the focus of many research works. In fact, seaports are now suffering the lack of space at maritime terminals and the growing congestion on their access routes with t…

Logistics network optimization considering balanced allocation and vehicle ro…

This article presents an effort to study the complex problem that arises when balanced allocation is integrated with vehicle routing decisions in a logistics network. This integrated problem is frequently encountered in many logistics networks that maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of available warehouses and distribution centers. After modeling the balanced allocation vehicle routing p…

The effect of port and container terminal characteristics on terminal perform…

This study examines port and container terminal characteristics, and assesses how they affect performance. Little research has addressed the relationship between location, physical infrastructure (hard) and service (soft) characteristics, and container terminal performance. The present study fills this research gap. Performance is explained using a holistic perspective involving multivariate fa…

The uncapacitated multi-period facilities location problem with profit maximi…

The literature on the facilities location problem is quite extensive with a wide variety of solution methods for addressing these problems where the objective is cost minimization. Develops a branch and bound algorithm for solving the uncapacitated, multiperiod facility location problem where the objective is to maximize profits. The solution method uses a number of simplification and branching…

The transport selection criteria of Norwegian exporters

Examines transport selection criteria with particular reference to Norwegian exports. Because results of studies of carrier selection determinants tend to have a degree of consensus, there is a risk of assuming context‐free determinants, whereas throughout the world there is a range of contexts that may influence determinants. Norway has distinctive features including export dependency with…

The integration of ERP into a logistics curriculum: applying a systems approach

The area of logistics and enterprise resource planning (ERP) have a natural bond in that both deal explicitly with identifying working with business processes. This also generates concerns. For example, typical education and training paradigms implementations are often task‐oriented (scientific management) not process‐oriented (systems management). This creates a paradoxical situation whe…

Solving a continuous location-routing problem by use of a self-organizing map

A variant of Kohonen’s algorithm for the self-organizing map (SOM) is used to solve a continuous location-routing problem that can be applied to identify potential sites for subsequent selection by a discrete finite set model. The paper aims to show how the algorithm may be customized to fit the problem structure in a way that allows aspects of location and routing to be integrated into the s…

Design of global production and distribution networks: A literature review an…

The purpose of this paper is to systematically and critically review the extant literature on the design of global production and distribution networks to identify gaps in the literature and identify future research opportunities. The design aspects deal with strategic and structural decisions such as: opening or closing of manufacturing plants or distribution centres, selection of locations fo…

Consumer-driven retail operations: The moderating effects of consumer demand …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the direct and interaction effects of shelf space, case pack quantity, and consumer demand on shelf stockouts, i.e. stockouts at the shelf level when inventory is available in the backroom of a retail store.

A heuristic rule for relocating blocks

One of the most important objectives of the storage and pickup operations in block stacking systems is to minimize the number of relocations during the pickup operation. This study suggests two methods for determining the locations of relocated blocks. First, a branch-and-bound (B&B) algorithm is suggested. Next, a decision rule is proposed by using an estimator for an expected number of additi…

Artificial intelligence hybrid heuristic based on tabu search for the dynamic…

This paper considers the Dynamic Berth Allocation Problem, in which vessels are assigned to discrete positions in berths. This problem, whose goal is to minimize the total time the vessels stay at the port, constitutes one of the most important processes at any containers terminal. We propose a hybrid metaheuristic that combines Tabu Search with Path Relinking, T2SnþPR. The results reached by …

Application of FMCDM model to selecting the hub location in the marine transp…

Hub location selection problems have become one of the most popular and important issues not only in the truck transportation and the air transportation, but also in the marine transportation. The main focus of this paper is on container transshipment hub locations in southeastern Asia. Transshipment is the fastest growing segment of the containerport market, resulting in significant scope to d…

An Integrated Model for Berth Template and Yard Template Planning in Transshi…

This paper studies two tactical level decision problems arising in transshipment hubs: berth template planning that is concerned with allocating berths and quay cranes to arriving vessels, and yard template planning that is concerned with assigning yard storage locations to vessels. These two tactical level decisions interact with each other. A mixed-integer programming model is proposed to int…

Optimality analysis of facility location problems using response surface meth…

Response surface methodology (RSM) is used for optimality analysis of the cost coefficients in mixed integer linear programming. This optimality analysis goes beyond traditional sensitivity and parametric analysis in allowing investigation of the optimal objective function value response over pre-specified ranges on multiple problem parameters. Design of experiments and least squares regression…

The impact of engineering changes on materials planning

The purpose of this paper is to increase the understanding of the impact of engineering changes on the materials planning process.

Strategic analysis of offshore migration of polluting firms and suppliers: an…

This paper, being complementary to existing perspectives, aims to examine the behaviors and the strategies of production migration of polluting firms from an economic point of view under appropriate decision conditions in terms of uncertain influence of supply chain support and green technology progress.

Plant roles: Site competence bundles and their relationships with site locati…

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the strategic role of plants, in terms of the type and level of site competence, the relationship with the strategic reason for location, and the impact on operational performance.