Scheduling trucks in cross-docking- Review paper

Competitiveness in global markets has force organizations to develop and improve their policy to satisfy customer’s different needs in the best way with minimum cost. Cross docking is a new distribution strategy, which is widely used by many companies practically and attracts the researcher’s attention to study in recent years. Products are collected by inbound vehicles from suppliers and after consolidation process in the cross-dock, immediately are delivered by outbound trucks to customers. This paper presents a review on cross docking problems for better implementation of this strategy. Different characteristics of all aspects of cross docking are discussed. In addition, in this paper an extensive review of the truck scheduling problem in cross docking system which is the most studied concept is presented and categorized. A general classification provides several opportunities for researchers to extend the current studies.

Keywords:

cross-dock , scheduling , supply chain