The current maintenance system of the national defense industry shall be schemed to complete and establish an integrated logistics support management system of the military aircraft commercial maintenance in the future, so as to provide a main information link system that carry out the military maintenance businesses. The methods of maintenance data collect and work orders release base on Maint...

The notion of information logistics (IL) has been introduced as a new information management paradigm. Goal is to enable the effective and efficient delivery of needed information in the right format, granularity and quality, at the right place, at the right point in time to the right actors. IL has received much attention in recent years, both from researchers and practitioners. In order to be...

With the increased complexity and uncertainty in business operations, adaptive and collaborative business processes and exception management (EM) are gaining growing attention. In the logistics industry, the current logistics exceptions are managed using human resources together with the traditional workflow technology-based supply-chain management or other logistics tools. The traditional work...

Modern logistics systems are characterized by an increasing structural complexity and dynamicity, which arises from trends in the global economy, decomposition of supply chains and individual customer demands. These trends have amplified the need for greater flexibility in the (re-)configuration of supply chains and, additionally, the demand to move from centralized to decentralized IT solution...

Facility relocation has a long-term impact on business competitiveness in terms of cost efficiency, service level, and accessibility to marketplace. This paper investigates the impacts of relocating a company’s logistics facility. Specifically, a case study of a logistics service provider for a bank, whose services include cash pick-up and deliveries, and ATM refill, is conducted. Some of the m...

As the humanitarian aid sector is expanding, the need for enhancing coordination capabilities increases as well. This holds especially for the area of logistics, because humanitarian operations typically take place in unstable and risky environments, where infrastructure is poor, while staff turnover is high. The effectiveness of humanitarian logistics critically depends on the availability and...

An increasing number of firms are marching to the drumbeat of business process redesign (BPR), alternatively called reengineering. The term reengineering may be new, but the idea of process redesign is familiar to most engineers involved in logistics and production control. Just-in-time (JIT), Total Quality Management (TQM), Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), Computer Integrated Manufacturin...

As the outsourcing of key suppliers and business processes becomes increasingly popular, the evaluation and selection of the logistics outsourcing companies is of critical importance in supply chain management. However, there are few quantitative studies on the investigation of the main affecting factors of the logistics service quality focused on the market in China, which is one of the develo...

Traditionally, the formulation of logistics strategies to execute various logistics services is done by human experts. In this paper, a knowledge-based logistics strategy system (KLSS) is designed in helping them to support the logistics strategy development stage by retrieving and analyzing useful knowledge and solutions in a timely and cost effective manner. The proposed knowledge-based syste...