Operational transportation planning of freight forwarding companies in horizontal coalitions
Collaborative transportation planning of freight forwarders is studied. Routing of own vehicles is extended by subcontracting and request exchanging. Considering all request fulfillment options may result in considerable cost savings. A new planning framework is proposed for forwarders in horizontal coalitions. Computational results show very high efficiency of the proposed planning framework.
transportation planning subcontracting request exchange logistics distributed decision making collaborative planning