A challenge for car manufacturers is to adjust rapidly and efficiently the production capacities with a volatile market demand and despite distant suppliers. In this paper, we consider a sales and operations planning problem based on the actual situation of Renault, a French global automobile...

Cross-docking is a logistics methodology employed in warehouses to gain a competitive advantage by consolidating and transferring freights directly from an inbound supplier to an outbound client with no or restricted storage. Real-time data processing is required for fast synchronisation of...