Nowadays, offering extended warranty is considered as a lucrative source of income from the perspective of the after-sale service providers. Meanwhile, the main concern is presence or absence of base warranty and strategies adopted by the manufacturer during this period. Moreover, extended warranty structure must be responsive and customer oriented, which not only control the services cost but ...

The recent trends in logistics outsourcing have led to the need investigate 3PL (third-party logistics) industry better. However, attention has always been focused on operative performance, and role of warehouse skimmed over. This research aims define relationship between features performance indicators 3PLs, filling literature gap. provides insight into 3PLs’ way thinking, helping 3PLs identif...

The problem of selecting 3PL (Third Party Logistics) suppliers is a major issue in the management supply chain and improvement production manufacturing company. A supplier can be defined as company that provides contract logistics services to manufacturer, or main user product service. It called third party because provider does not own products but participates between manufacturer given produ...

<p style="text-indent:20px;">We consider integrated scheduling of production and distribution operations associated with two customers (agents). Each customer has a set orders to be processed on the single line at supplier competitive basis. The finished same are then packed delivered by third-party logistics (3PL) provider limited number delivery transporters. carried in transporter cann...

The p-median problem has been widely studied in the literature during the last decades especially its linear version. We propose a capacitated p-median problem with concave costs, in which the global cost incurred for each established facility is a concave function of the quantity q delivered by this facility. The unit distribution cost decreases with the increased quantity of output or demand ...