CARGO CONSOLIDATION AND DISTRIBUTION THROUGH A TERMINALS-NETWORK. A BRANCH-AND-PRICE APPROACH

Rodolfo Dondo
2017 Iberoamerican Journal of Industrial Engineering   unpublished
Less-than-truckload is a transport modality that includes many practical variations to convey a number of transportation-requests from the origin locations to their destinations by using the possibility of goods-transshipments on the carrier's terminals-network. In this way, logistics companies are required to consolidate shipments from different suppliers in the outbound vehicles at a terminal of the network. We present a methodology for finding near-optimal solutions on a less-than-truckload
more » ... hipping modality used for cargo consolidation and distribution through a terminals-network. The methodology uses column generation combined with an incomplete branch-and-price procedure.
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