Logistics Cooperation: Integrated Logistics Services

Cooperation in Reverse Logistics

Many businesses have now realized that a Reverse Logistics system can be used to gain competitive advantage. Even the best retailers and vendors now have reason to review how their returns programs are managed. New technologies and service providers now offer an opportunity to improve overall ‘total returns performance’. This means not only reducing the ‘total cost of returns’, but utilizing re...

Computer Integrated Logistics

Figure 1: Structure of the CIL reference model concerned in each specific case. According to object-oriented modeling, it incorporates information and methods which are specified in the CIL reference model. The CIL reference model consists of five building blocks: functions, institutions, coordination mechanisms, messages and information. The functions comprise activities in the settlement phas...

Integrated Analytical Model for Relief Logistics in Uncertain Conditions

The life of many people in the world is under the danger because of the accidents and unpredicted diseases, which require relief. Since, most of such cases occur in unpredictable condition, for an appropriate planning, the uncertain conditions should be investigated. Consequently, this paper investigates the integrated and multi-step process of locating, assigning and routing the air and la...

Integrated Distributed/Mobile Logistics Management

The objective of the logistics management and control in a transport enterprise is to plan for the cheapest way to fulfill the transport needs of the customers and to offer services to the customers like for example supplying information about where products of the customers are in the transport process at any time. In case of delays in some transports this type of information may be important ...

Simulation Integrated Design for Logistics