Contracts design for serial delivery with connecting time spot: From a perspective of fourth party logistics

For a serial delivery system, the latter 3PL needs to be prepared at the transshipment node in advance to reduce the total delivery time. In this paper, we propose the concept of Connecting Time Spot (CTS) to help 4PL schedule the latter 3PL when to wait at the transshipment node. We study...

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Main Authors: Yang Dong, Xiaohu Qian, Min Huang, Wai-Ki Ching
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2022-01-01
Series:International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/ijiec/Vol13/IJIEC_2022_19.pdf