Logistics distributors face the issue of having to provide increasing service levels while being forced to reduce costs at the same time. Same-day delivery, quick order processing and rapidly growing ranges of articles are only some of the prevailing challenges. One key aspect of the performance of an intra-logistics system is how often and in which amplitude congestions and dysfunctions affect...

Logistics outsourcing has been applied in practices by enterprises for decades, but its efficiency is always restricted because logistics service providers (LSPs) often only have a single function such as delivery or warehousing. In the last few years, LSPs have upgraded their capabilities to support some other logistics services including valueadded services, materials management, information-...

The new control paradigm Internet of Things (IoT) in intralogistics propagates highly modular and flexible decentralized control systems based on agent technology and radio-frequency identification (RFID). The productive application of such systems demands the fulfillment of several requirements, which exist in the industrial reality of the facility logistics. The real-time requirements in dece...

Efficient logistics represents a crucial differentiating factor in the market. The distribution centre employee occupies a special role for reaching the goal of more efficient logistics. One approach is to increase the logistics performance by improving labour productivity due to increasing work motivation. The developed employee performance measurement and improvement system is a combination o...

The increasing competition due to globalization and e-Business development has stimulated manufacturers to pursue supply chain alliances more aggressively. The primary motivation for this is to minimize overall costs and gain mutual benefits through supplier-manufacturer integration. Supply chain alliance is one of the key strategic co-operations adopted by manufacturers to simultaneously reduc...

In recent years, much more natural disasters, public health events and a variety of disasters, accidents have occurred. This paper proposes an index system for the evaluation of the performance of emergency logistics. Performance evaluation of a group of entities is frequently based on the values of several attributes and usually requires the weights of the attributes to be set in advance. Afte...

In JIT assembly system, any supplier’s postponement of delivery or incorrect delivery quantity will result in the manufacturer’s incapability of assembling on schedule, which will not only damage the interests of other suppliers but also jeopardize the interests of enterprises and reduce the competitiveness of the supply chain. In this article, coordination of the upstream supply logistics from...

Facility relocation has a long-term impact on business competitiveness in terms of cost efficiency, service level, and accessibility to marketplace. This paper investigates the impacts of relocating a company’s logistics facility. Specifically, a case study of a logistics service provider for a bank, whose services include cash pick-up and deliveries, and ATM refill, is conducted. Some of the m...

Purpose Logistics scholars, as well as strategic management scholars, have in recent years shown that capabilities in logistics and supply chain management may be the foundation for a company’s sustainable competitive advantage. It can be argued that beside product-, production-, or market-oriented companies, there are also floworiented companies, in which the business models are based on super...

As nowadays’ forward logistics of automobile industry have been developed in a good stage, according to various car manufacturers; third-party logistics companies are more concerned about the car forward logistics. However, with the mature of automotive consumer market competition, innovation and the rise of global environmental awareness, the car reverse logistics must be given due attention a...