Planning in logistics: a survey

Abstract

© 2010 ACMPermission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.Presented at PerMIS’10 September 28-30, 2010, Baltimore, MD, USA.Planning is an essential part of any logistics system. The paper tries to generalize the view of a logistics planner by framing it as a knapsack problem. We show how the various variants of the knapsack problem compare for different types of industries. We also introduce the pallet stacking problem and survey some of the recent advances made towards this problem