In this paper, a nonlinear multiproduct vehicle location-routing model is presented with heterogeneous vehicles. Each truck can carry one or more types of products. | Designing a location-routing model for cross docking in green supply chain Uncertain Supply Chain Management 7 2019 1 16 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Uncertain Supply Chain Management homepage uscm Designing a location-routing model for cross docking in green supply chain Afrouz Rahmandousta and Roya Soltanib a Phd Student Department of Industrial Engineering Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University Tehran Iran b Assistant Professor Department of Industrial Engineering Science and Research Branch Islamic Azad University Tehran Iran CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history Today most industrial managers in the world are interested in protecting the environment and Received February 16 2018 biological resources. On the other hand current technologies are getting momentum towards Accepted July 6 2018 specialization and globalization. Thus in order to remain in a highly competitive world market Available online producers have to respond to the customers demands under different circumstances. The July 7 2018 Keywords leading role of distribution centers to deliver products to customers on time and to reduce the Cross docking costs of stock maintenance has attracted the attention of many supply chain managers in current Vehicle location-routing competitive conditions. Cross docking is a logistic strategy aiming to reduce the stock and Multiproduct increase the level of customer s satisfaction. Products are delivered from the supplier to the Various vehicles customers through cross docking. In this paper a nonlinear multiproduct vehicle location- Split pickup and delivery routing model is presented with heterogeneous vehicles. Each truck can carry one or more Green supply chain types of products. In other words compatibility between product and vehicle has been accounted for here. This model aims to find out the possible minimum number of cross dockings among the existing set of discrete locations and minimize the total cost of
