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Cross-docking concept is an activity which receiving products from inbound trucks, sorting the products according to its destination and finally distributing the products to the outbound trucks for delivery without storing products. Cross-docking approach will result for efficient shipping time and ...

Cross-docking concept is an activity which receiving products from inbound trucks, sorting the products according to its destination and finally distributing the products to the outbound trucks for delivery without storing products. Cross-docking approach will result for efficient shipping time and reduce the cost of the distribution center. In this paper, we consider the inbound and outbound truck scheduling problem in a cross-docking system. We proposed a new scheduling method which may reduce the completion time by canceling the waiting time of outbound trucks. We gave a mathematical programming formulation for the problem and developed a genetic algorithm to solve the large problem instances. Computational test results on randomly generated problem instances show that the proposed method reduced the completion time up to 17%.

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