Operations research/computer science interfaces series ;
ORCS 35
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
Freight transshipment -- Vehicle transshipment -- Automobile production and distribution -- Trends in automobile production -- Challenges for outbound logistics -- Intermodal vehicle transshipment -- Vehicle transport market -- Competition factors for ports -- Management of terminal operations -- Transshipment processes -- Management decisions -- Modeling terminal operations -- Vehicle transshipment planning -- An integrated transshipment model -- Problem separation -- Allocation of storage space -- Space allocation problems -- Problem generation -- Construction heuristic -- An evolutionary algorithm approach -- personnel development -- The gang scheduling problem -- Tabu search -- Algorithm design -- Computational investigation -- IT-integration of planning -- Support for terminal operations -- Software support for planning -- Interplay of execution and planning -- Impact of automated planning.
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1.1 Freight Transshipment We observe an ongoing trend towards globalized industrial produc tion. Multinational companies aim at strategic competitive advantages by distributing their activities around the globe. As a result, the in dividual supply chains become longer and more complex. Next to the supply chain reliability, companies try to keep supply chains cost effi cient and responsive, i.e. warrant short order fulfillment lead times (Siirie and Wagner, 2005). The above goals dictate low inventory levels at the stages of a supply chain as well as a high frequency of transports between the partners involved. Supply Chain Requirements. Detailed performance measures for a supply chain are provided by the Supply Chain Operations Refer ence (SCOR) model (Supply-Chain Council, 2002). The SCOR model provides four levels with increasing detail of process modeling. In accor dance to the process detail depicted SCOR metrics are defined for each level. Level 1 distinguishes metrics addressing the reliability of supply chains, their responsiveness, flexibility, cost and optionally their assets. On levels 2-4 these metrics are operationalized with respect to the pro cess types source, make and deliver. Thus, as substantial activities of the deliver process, transport and transshipment are evaluated as an integral part of the supply chain.