Facing global competition firms are redesigning their supply chains. Logistics activities have a particular importance where production activities are both remarkably diffused or concentrated. The coordination of transport demand implies not only to reduce costs, but also to respond promptly to final market. In the paper, the use of an enterprise input-output model to analyse logistics flows is...

Business administration and information systems research invent new terms and concepts not only to denote new phenomena but also to convey a new perspective on problems that are known in principle. The concept of information logistics links the functions of business logistics and information management. It focuses on vertical coordination within firms and horizontal coordination within and beyo...

Improved responsiveness to natural and man-made disasters is critical to saving lives and alleviating the suffering caused by such disasters. Emphasis on the design of the relief chain to reduce delivery time of relief inventory improves responsiveness. This is the essence of inventory pre-positioning (IPP). IPP is yet to be clearly defined; and the main factors affecting IPP decision-making ne...

Road accidents, as one of the causes mortality in human societies, have many adverse social and economic consequences. Various measures can improve safety travel. One them is to find appropriate location relief infrastructures. The proper pre-positioning chains locations  decrease road users’ fatalities. Thus this paper presents a  multi-objective mathematical model a chain for accidents. Then ...

Intelligent transformation of manufacturers requires smart logistics collaboration, which improves competitiveness. In this study, we construct a Stackelberg game model based on the mutual influence and restriction in relationship between manufacturer service provider (LSP) undergoing transformation. We investigate whether cost-sharing (CS) or revenue-sharing (RS) contracts can coordinate suppl...

The objective of this field-based research was to assess the impact of natural disasters and disaster interventions on protracted intra-state conflicts and to provide insight for designing and implementing disaster interventions in conflict situations. The field research was conducted in Sri Lanka and Aceh/Indonesia as a comparative analysis. The researchers chose Sri Lanka and Aceh/Indonesia b...

The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationship between supply-demand coordination and performance of Logistics Service Supply Chain (LSSC) and help managers to understand which factors make significant influence on the performance of LSSC. In this paper, a correlation model for supply-demand coordination and performance analysis is presented, and then the survey method is adopted to c...

BACKGROUND When disasters occur, humanitarian relief workers frequently deploy to assist in rescue/recovery efforts. AIMS To conduct a systematic review of factors affecting the psychological wellbeing of disaster relief workers and identify recommendations for interventions. METHOD We searched MEDLINE®, Embase, PsycINFO® and Web of Science for relevant studies, supplemented by hand searche...