A cross-docking terminal enables consolidating and sorting fast-moving products along supply chain networks and reduces warehousing costs and transportation efforts. The target efficiency of such logistic systems results from synchronizing the physical and information flows while scheduling...

In this paper, we study the hierarchical hub network design problem with a ring-star-star structure. In this problem, the hubs are located in two layers. In the first layer, central hubs (main hubs) are located in a ring structure, and in the second layer, secondary hubs are located. Each...

Outbound logistics is a crucial field of logistics management. This study considers a planning distribution for the poultry industry in Thailand. The goal of the study is to minimize the transportation cost for the multi-depot vehicle-routing problem (MDVRP). A novel enhanced differential...

An optimal sizing model for an off-grid hybrid micro-grid system (HMGS) consisting of solar photovoltaic (PV), wind turbine (WT), diesel generator (DG) and battery (BAT) is developed. A tri-objective formulation, considering techno-socio-economic factors, is employed for finding the optimal...

Purpose: The research studies the production system having multiple items being processed on the same production line. The objectives are to (1) investigate the influence of production sequence on the optimal value of production run size, (2) explore the effect of production sequence on the...