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The increasing pressure on modern freight forwarding companies to improve profitability have strongly affected their fleet management and transportation planning strategies for the fulfillment of customer transportation requests. In order to reduce the overall operational costs and to maintain a very high utilization grade of the own transportation resources, freight forwarders need not only optimize their internal processes, but also consider external capacities from other carriers in their operational planning.
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Wang, X. (2015). From Cherry-Picking to Integrated Operational Transportation Planning. In: Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies. Produktion und Logistik. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06869-1_4
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