Since the selection of middle managers is critical to the development of organizations for third-party logistics service providers (3PLs), how do the organizations of 3PLs select and recruit competent middle managers? The decision-making for middle managers selection poses a multi-criteria problem and faces a fuzzy environment. Hence, the aim of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multiple criteri...

Supplier relationship management is an important challenge for shippers in logistics outsourcing. This paper attempts to understand the factors which affect inter organizational relationships performance in third party logistics and proposes a conceptual framework specifically for inter organizational relationship performance in third party logistics. We also draw a set of propositions from pub...

In this paper, we conduct the multi-view ontology approach to develop knowledge-based logistical management system for lead logistics provider also known as fourth-party logistics (4PL). We believe that sharing the consolidated and elaborated domain knowledge between service providers and customers can achieve the win-win situation. By means of conceptual abstraction, 4PL can establish semantic...

Supply chain units are connected by both physical and information flows. Electronic services are used to perform a large part of activities in modern supply chains. The traditional supply chain configuration models pay the main attention to optimization of the physical flows. However, it is equally important to ensure that the physical units have appropriate information processing and logistics...

Supply chain units are connected by both physical and information flows. Electronic services are used to perform a large part of activities in modern supply chains. The traditional supply chain configuration models pay the main attention to optimization of the physical flows. However, it is equally important to ensure that the physical units have appropriate information processing and logistics...

With respect to multiple criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems in which both the weights and expert take form of crisp numbers attribute values interval-valued picture fuzzy uncertain linguistic numbers, some new analysis methods are developed. Firstly, operational laws, expected value, accuracy function introduced. Then, an averaging geometric aggregation operators Furthermore, desir...

Abstract By introducing the concept of sustainable development, managers and policymakers in many industries have been encouraged to consider environmental social issues addition economic objectives their planning. Following this concept, supply chain management has become main concern studies. Among all strategies achieve sustainability targets a chain, cooperating with third-party logistics c...