CARRIER CAPACITY AWARE MULTI-STOP SHIPMENT GENERATOR

摘要

A method, system, and computer program product for shipment consolidation in high-performance transportation systems. The method commences upon receiving a plurality of orders to be transported from a source location to a destination location over a transportation lane, then retrieving one or more records that describe transportation carrier resource capacity covering at least a portion of the transportation lane. An enumerator facility of the method generates a plurality of candidate shipments using the transportation carrier resource capacities. Infeasible candidate shipments such as where the transportation carrier resource capacity is exceeded are eliminated, and the remaining feasible shipments are evaluated to determine a respective cost. Then the remaining shipments are ordered based at least in part on the cost, and one of the low cost feasible shipments is selected to be used for transporting the shipment.

主权项

1. A computer implemented method comprising:
using a computing system having at least one processor to perform a process, the process comprising: receiving a plurality of orders to be transported from a source location to a destination location; retrieving one or more records that describe transportation carrier resource capacity pertaining to single or multi-stop transport of the plurality of orders from the source location to the destination location; generating a plurality of candidate shipments using the one or more records that describe transportation carrier resource capacity, wherein the transportation carrier resource capacity is not exceeded; evaluating at least some of the plurality of candidate shipments to determine a cost for a corresponding candidate shipment; and selecting one or more of the candidate shipments wherein the selection is based at least in part on the cost.