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...

RFID technology in logistics system is widely used as the core in Internet of things and plays an important role in the field of logistics management. The EPC code is stored in the RFID tag, can realize the identification of the real target. Cloud computing is a distributed processing, parallel processing and grid computing development, distributed in a large number of distributed computers thr...

Through the analysis of Travelling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery (TSPD) in the related research, two kinds of logistics systems including whole logistics system and partial logistics system under one-to-many logistic network are considered. And mathematical model is set up, then, nested cost optimization model is set up in order to meet the constraint condition of nested order cycle...

The credit lack of third-party logistics enterprises has severely hampered the healthy development of the industry. This article establish the credit evaluation index system for third-party logistics enterprises based on the analysis of factors influencing the credit for a comprehensive, objective, scientific credit level evaluation. The authors determine the weight of every evaluation index wi...

Autonomous logistics is a new research domain that works on the decentralization of decision-making processes. To reach the research objectives of this domain, intelligent products are becoming the focal point. The implementation of autonomous systems leads to the deployment of Multi-Agent-Systems which manage the complex decision making processes. A key finding of the autonomous logistics rese...

Quality and production logistics have been traditionally considered as separate fields, both by researchers and industrialists. However, during the design phase of production systems, the decisions taken as an answer to productivity requirements have an impact on product quality; similarly the decisions taken to meet quality requirements affect the productivity performance of the system. The pa...

Objectives Understanding the factors that influence tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes in children is key to designing interventions to address them. This study aimed to determine the case category distribution of childhood TB in Nigeria and assess which clinical and demographic factors are associated with different treatment outcomes in childhood TB. Materials and methods This was a retros...

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Agent technologies and multiagent systems start to appear in transportation and logistics domain only recently. The paper proposes an approach of multiagent system and multicriteria auction for decision support in transportation and logistics domain. The multiagent system consists from clients’ agents and logistics companies agents which may participate in four known types of auctions which are...

City Logistics aims to reduce the nuisances associated to freight transportation in urban areas while supporting the economic and social development of the cities. The fundamental idea is to view individual stakeholders and decisions as components of an integrated logistics system. This implies the coordination of shippers, carriers, and movements as well as the consolidation of loads of severa...