Chapter 1: China logistics market overview: 1.1 China Economy overview 1.2 A huge logistics market 1.3 China logistics market features 1.4 Regulatory constraints Chapter 2: Logistics infrastructure overview and analysis: 2.1 The development of China Internet network and telephone system 2.2 Transportation analysis: Highway and trucking service 2.3 Transportation analysis: Railroad industry 2.4 ...

Logistics, transportation and distribution engineering can be divided into internal or in-plant logistics and external manufacturing or distribution logistics. The Internal or in-plant logistics includes the material handling systems and storage systems and the external manufacturing or distribution logistics includes the transportation modes such as trains and trucks. Both must be integrated i...

The goal of this thesis is to describe, model, and optimize reverse logistics systems commonly used in the Consumer Electronics industry. The context and motivation for this work stem from a collaboration with an industrial partner, a Fortune 500 company that sells consumer electronics and is one of the top retailers in its sector. The thesis is divided into three parts. In the first part of th...

Customer service is increasingly being recognized as a source of competitive advantage. Determining customer needs accurately, meeting and exceeding them in a consistent manner is the key to the effective customer service. Companies should adapt a strategic, proactive focus on customer service based on understanding logistics process and designing logistics system to meet their needs. This ...

The advent of the Internet and e-commerce has brought a new way of marketing and selling many products, including books. The system-wide impacts of this shift in retail methods on cost, energy, and the environment are still unclear. While reductions in inventories and returns provide significant savings, some of the major concerns of ecommerce business models are the energy and packaging materi...

The wide utilisation of information communication technology has significantly affected also a development of logistics services concepts. Consequently, research in the area of virtual companies including logistics services is developing. Presented visions are commandingly optimistic, even though sceptics are already gathering counter-arguments against those visions. As an important factor of s...

The principal challenge of inventory control in supply chains is that the interacting autonomous enterprises have to plan their production and logistics under information asymmetry, driven by different, often conflicting objectives. In this paper, four different computational approaches are investigated to cope with this challenge: decomposition, integration, coordination, and bilevel programmi...

design of a logistics network in proper way provides a proper platform for efficient and effective supply chain management. this paper studies a multi-period, multi echelon and multi-product integrated forward-reverse logistics network under uncertainty. first, an efficient complex mixed-integer linear programming (milp) model by considering some real-world assumptions is developed for the inte...

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This paper focuses on the framework of personalized logistics service. Taking “provide it”, “find it” and “get it” as the guides, and based on X Party Material Flow(X-PMF), this paper formed the basic theoretical framework of Personalized Logistics Service (PLS), which includes the theories and methods of X-PMF virtual collector, information filter and logistics coordination system. Then the op...