... to the Cross Docking terminal) and Collaborative Logistics among outbound carriers (i.e. to ship the consolidated products from the terminal to the retailers). Since part of the collaboration is to split the deliveries and pickups and consolidate the products in a merger center, we review the literature on two...

...Mu-Chen Chen; Chung-Cheng Lu; Yi-Ching Liu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to deal with an optimal consolidation problem for fresh agricultural products (e.g. fruits and vegetables) in a multi-temperature joint distribution (MTJD) system that is developed to resolve the challenge of timely...