Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions
Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ejor.2014.02.056
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2014-09
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通讯作者：
Xin Wang;H. Kopfer;M. Gendreau
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作者：
Xin Wang;H. Kopfer;M. Gendreau
为了提高盈利能力，货运代理公司试图系统地组织其运营运输计划，不仅考虑自己的车队，而且考虑外部资源。这些外部资源包括来自垂直合作中密切相关的分包商的车辆，运输市场上的自主公共运营商以及水平联盟中的合作伙伴。本文研究了货代的运输规划过程，分析了引入外部资源的效益。通过引入分包，自有车辆的传统路线被扩展到综合运营运输规划，该规划同时使用自有车队和分包商的车辆以总体最低成本构建履行计划。然后将其与计划战略相结合，计划战略旨在通过在横向联盟中的成员之间交换请求来增加盈利能力。计算结果表明，相当大的成本降低，使用所提出的规划方法。
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.