Joint employee weekly timetabling and daily rostering: A decision-support tool for a logistics platform

To deal with their highly variable workload, logistics companies make their task force flexible using multi-skilled employees, flexible working hours or short-term contracts. Together with the legal constraints and the handling equipments’ capacities, these possibilities make personnel scheduling a complex task. This paper describes a model to support their chain of decisions from the weekly timetabling to the daily rostering (detailed task allocation).

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Ladier, Anne-Laure ; Alpan, Gülgün ; Penz, Bernard
Published in:	European Journal of Operational Research. - Elsevier, ISSN 0377-2217. - Vol. 234.2014, 1, p. 278-291
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Manpower planning \| Logistics \| Mixed integer linear programming \| Sequential solving

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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