Reverse logistics, which is induced by various forms of used products and materials, has received growing attention throughout this decade. In a highly competitive environment, the service level is an important criterion for reverse logistics network design. However, most previous studies about product returns only focused on the total cost of the reverse logistics and neglected the service lev...

In other words, facilities design attempts to organize the tangible fixed assets of an activity in such way as to provide maximal support for the achievement of the activity's objectives at the present time and in the future at the lowest possible cost. This activity can take many different forms, e.g. manufacturing (plant layout), health care (hospital layout), transportation (airport layout) ...

TheUScarpet industry is striving to reach a 40%diversion rate from landfills by 2012, according to amemorandum of understanding signed by industry and government officials in 2002. As a result, they are interested in methods of setting up a reverse logistics (RL) system which will allow them to manage the highly variable return flows. In this paper, we simulate such a carpet RL supply chain and...

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...

Automated storage and retrieval systems are primarily used for storing and handling unit loads. The Effective Unit Load Dimensions are used to size the system. They include the actual size of the unit load plus all the clearances between adjacent loads to accommodate access and fire prevention devices. The effective unit load dimensions are measured between the centroids of adjacent unit loads ...

• The computational power and accuracy of the computer allow the generation and evaluation of many alternative layouts. • The computer solves each problem on its own merit following objective and systematic procedures and possibly will generate innovative or unusual layouts. • The computer requires explicitly a clear problem and objective definition • The computer requires a rigorous data prepa...

this study aimed to evaluate the success of the outsourcing model for logistics softwares, with emphasis on critical success factors of information systems has been performed. the purpose of this research is applied and methods of data collection is descriptive and correlational research design is second-order factor analysis. because in this study, causal relationships between variables in the...