During the last decade, the stringent pressures from environmental and social requirements have spurred an interest in designing a reverse logistics (RL) network. The success of a logistics system may depend on the decisions of the facilities locations and vehicle routings. The location-routing problem (LRP) simultaneously locates the facilities and designs the travel routes for vehicles among ...

This paper discusses demand and supply chain management and examines how artificial intelligence techniques and RFID technology can enhance the responsiveness of the logistics workflow. This proposed system is expected to have a significant impact on the performance of logistics networks by virtue of its capabilities to adapt unexpected supply and demand changes in the volatile marketplace with...

To effectively optimize multi-objective logistics distribution path, the distance and distance related customer satisfaction factor are used as the objective function, a novel kruskal crossover genetic algorithm (KCGA) for multi-objective logistics distribution path optimization is proposed. To test the optimization results, the terminal distribution model and the virtual logistics system opera...

This paper presents the procedure for logistics system scenario selection for the central business district (CBD) of the city in the phase of significant urban changes. Scenarios are defined in accordance with the overall logistics concept of the city. Conflicting goals of stakeholders (residents, shippers and receivers, logistics providers and city government) generate a vast number of criteri...

BACKGROUND Autochthonous cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused by Leishmania martiniquensis and Leishmania siamensis have been considered emerging infectious diseases in Thailand. The disease burden is significantly underestimated, especially the prevalence of Leishmania infection among HIV-positive patients. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the prevalence...

Abstract. The information asymmetry between banks and enterprises and imperfect mechanism bring some risk to banks carrying out the logistics and financial business. Based on the study of the logistics financial risk indicators, the risk evaluation index system of logistics finance from the pledge risk, financing enterprise credit risk, logistics enterprise risk and regulatory risk is set, and ...

Logistics cost is an important factor that affects the competitiveness of nations as well as firms. High logistics costs and low levels of service are a barrier to trade and foreign direct investment and thus to economic growth. Shortening of production cycles, amplification of competition globally, sharing and outsourcing of production processes, shorter delivery times and plethora of choices ...

Cold chain logistics guarantees the quality and freshness of some especial agriculture products. At present cold chain logistics monitoring system can just monitor single point of the temperature in the cold chain vehicle body, it cannot estimate the space temperature distribution of cold chain vehicle body. This paper introduces a cold chain logistics monitoring system based on ARM Linux. The ...