The rapid development of mobile commerce (m-commerce) has profound influence on logistics industry. Firstly, through analysis that combines m-commerce and the logistics industry, the paper draws a conclusion that main m-commerce applications in logistics industry include cargo tracking, mobile inventory management, vehicle positioning and M2M (machine to machine) mobile services. Then, we think...

Alejandro Serrano MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Rogelio Oliva Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Santiago Kraiselburd MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics...

Purpose: Various information technologies have been designed to assist with the resource management of distribution centres in a typical supply chain. But the humanitarian distribution centre has its own characteristics including hybrid freight types (food, medicine and general living goods, as well as a need to track rescue equipment, vehicles and on-site staff), destabilized operating circums...

This paper describes an integrated location-distribution model for coordinating logistics support and evacuation operations in disaster response activities. Logistics planning in emergencies involves dispatching commodities (e.g., medical materials and personnel, specialised rescue equipment and rescue teams, food, etc.) to distribution centres in affected areas and evacuation and transfer of w...

Initiatives related to reverse logistics are increasingly common in companies that produce tires, lubricating oils, batteries, and electronic equipment, among others. In the pharmaceutical sector, is also relevant, contributing reduce medication exposure other people environment. Thus, this research seeks find out which practices used 13 hospitals state of Rio de Janeiro. Regarding methodologic...

With the prompt development of the economy and the society, the demand of logistics is increasing quickly. Modern logistics industry develops very quickly and has been playing important role in the construction of economy and society development. As the important content of the logistics industry, the logistics enterprises must emphasize on the marketing. Based on the analysis on the characteri...

Abstract Reducing the system failure rate of logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is the basic guarantee and supporting conditions of LSSC system operational stability. The paper, regarding the automobile logistics service supply chain system composed by logistics service integrators, logistics service providers and car manufacturer as the research object, sets up the fault tree model of the a...

Quantitative researching on the degree of incidence between the logistics industry and relevant macroscopic system elements is the basis of reasonable and scientific policy on industrial development. In the light of the macro-level, the logistics industry system is consisted of multiple macroscopic agents such as macro-economic, infrastructure, social environment, market demanding, the traditio...

Logistics processes in a globalized economy are increasingly complex, dynamic, and distributed. These characteristics pose major challenges for logistics management. Planning, organizing, leading and coordinating processes have become progressively more complex activities that are carried out by an increasing number of internal actors. Information inputs and outputs of these processes are more ...

with the strong development of logistics industry in our country, logistics professional talent demand is more and more strong, and the corresponding logistics professional talent training, but from the logistics professional education present situation: on the one hand, a large number of logistics professional graduates have been trained, on the other hand, the real society needed logistics pr...