Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a collaborative cross-sectoral approach to connect the resource supply and demand of various industries in order to optimize the resource use through exchange of materials, energy, water and human resources across different companies, while generating ecological,...

Based upon realtime location information of goods in this paper possible optimizations for cross-docking are evaluated. The use of agent-based decision support systems in order to identify the rescheduling alternatives with the highest business value are investigated.