Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions |
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Authors: | Xin Wang Herbert Kopfer Michel Gendreau |
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Institution: | 1. Chair of Logistics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;2. Département Informatique et recherche opérationnelle and Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics, and Transportation (CIRRELT), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada |
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Abstract: | In order to improve profitability, freight forwarding companies try to organize their operational transportation planning systematically, considering not only their own fleet but also external resources. Such external resources include vehicles from closely related subcontractors in vertical cooperations, autonomous common carriers on the transportation market, and cooperating partners in horizontal coalitions. In this paper, the transportation planning process of forwarders is studied and the benefit of including external resources is analyzed. By introducing subcontracting, the conventional routing of own vehicles is extended to an integrated operational transportation planning, which simultaneously constructs fulfillment plans with overall lowest costs using the own fleet and subcontractors’ vehicles. This is then combined with planning strategies, which intend to increase the profitability by exchanging requests among members in horizontal coalitions. Computational results show considerable cost reductions using the proposed planning approach. |
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Keywords: | Logistics Distributed decision making Transportation planning Subcontracting Collaborative planning Request exchange |
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