In today’s logistics market, small and mediumsized logistics companies are exposed to increasing cooperation pressure to use rationalization potentials, win new groups of customers and assert themselves in the competition with big logistics companies yielding a distinct market power. In the past, numerous SME-size logistics companies have joined to form regional logistics associations in order ...

The effective prevention and response of public emergencies such as natural disasters is not only a difficult problem for China, but also that governments all over the world hope to be solved effectively. Emergency supply chain management very important disaster relief. It determines whether emergency work can carried out efficiently orderly, which major event affecting national economy people’...

With development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. Therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. Today, one of t...

Background Prior to 1993, Nepal had a vertical health logistics system. Logistics was not a government priority. No logistics curricula had been developed, no staff had been trained, and no logistics information systems existed at any level. After the establishment of the Logistics Management Division in 1993, the lack of trained manpower in logistics was realized. With support of USAID funded ...

Emergency logistics system is mainly composed of emergency command center, emergency logistics center, and emergency logistics information system. Among them, emergency logistics information system is a very important part of the emergency logistics throughout the whole emergency logistics rescue process, which is consisted of early-warning, reserve and distribution, monitoring, decision-making...

The rapid development of Internet of Things has become an important trend of international economic and technological development, and the logistics industry is an industry first contact with Internet of Things. The concept of intelligent logistics is the tide of history, meets development trends of modern logistics industry automation, networking, visualization, real-time tracking and intellig...

A logistics information service manages a large amount of products and product transport flow. Many applications request logistics information from a logistics information service. For effective sharing of logistics information and knowledge, the design of a logistics information management system is important. The current web is changing to a semantic web that provides a common framework for d...

Complex logistics audit system Complex logistics audit system is a tool for realization of logistical audit in the company. The current methods for logistics audit are based on “ad hok” analysis of logisticsl system. This paper describes system for complex logistics audit. It is a global diagnostics of logistics processes and functions of enterprise. The goal of logistics audit is to provide co...

This paper presents an analysis of the perceptions held by for-hire and private trucking company logistics and operations managers about the impacts of congestion on their operations and the feasibility and effectiveness of actual and potential congestion mitigation policies. Responses to an extensive survey of nearly 1200 California-based or large national carriers are examined using confirmat...