In modern industry there are well defined methods for planning andoptimising the efficiency of the production. However, when looking at supplychain operations there often are problems with lack of communication andplanning between nodes. By not communicating the risk of creating non-valueadding work also increases as the organisations are not in sync. So the focus inthis paper is on how information can improve the operations of a container terminal.It is found that focusing on information about the containers and creatinga plan via time slots for the arriving trucks that some of the most obvious problemscan be minimized.
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