Towards designing and operating Physical Internet cross-docks: problem specifications and research perspectives

Tarik Chargui (), Anne-Laure Ladier (), Abdelghani Bekrar (), Shenle Pan () and Damien Trentesaux ()
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Tarik Chargui: LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPHF - Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France - INSA Hauts-De-France - INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Hauts-de-France - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées
Anne-Laure Ladier: DISP - Décision et Information pour les Systèmes de Production - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon - Université de Lyon - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées
Abdelghani Bekrar: LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPHF - Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France - INSA Hauts-De-France - INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Hauts-de-France - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées
Shenle Pan: CGS i3 - Centre de Gestion Scientifique i3 - Mines Paris - PSL (École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris) - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - I3 - Institut interdisciplinaire de l’innovation - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Damien Trentesaux: LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPHF - Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France - INSA Hauts-De-France - INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Hauts-de-France - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées

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Abstract: Cross-docking is a common logistics practice applied in transit platforms to synchronize inbound and outbound vehicles in order to avoid keeping in-between storage. The practice plays a critical role to accelerate transportation flows. In this paper, we focus on Physical Internet (PI or π) cross-docks and discuss how this concept changes the current classical design, management and optimization of cross-docking platforms. We present the optimization problems related to cross-docks in the PI context and highlight the distinctive features of a π-cross-dock. A review of the existing literature on the main ideas and components of the π-concept, and on the design and operations of π-cross-docks (π-hubs) is firstly presented. Then, the functional design of the π-cross-dock and the classical one are discussed while highlighting the distinctive features of both configurations. The different cross-docking optimization problems arising from the PI paradigm are then specified at the strategic, tactical and operational decision levels, showing how they differ from the problems already addressed for "traditional" cross-docking platforms. Finally, as a proof of concept, a preliminary study is carried out on one of the newly specified problems.

Keywords: Cross-docking design; Cross-docking operations; Logistics; Mathematical programming; Multi-modal transportation; Physical internet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-03
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Published in Omega, 2022, 111, pp.102641. ⟨10.1016/j.omega.2022.102641⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2022.102641

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