Mitchell, J.L. 2000. Alternative silvicultural systems: harvesting logistics and costs. In Proceedings, From science to management and back: a science forum for southern interior ecosystems of British Columbia. C. Hollstedt, K. Sutherland, and T. Innes (editors). Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership, Kamloops, B.C., pp. 97–100. Alternative silvicultural systems: Harvestin...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the area of Green Logistics and to describe some of the problems that arise in this subject which can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problems. The paper particularly considers the topics of reverse logistics, waste management and vehicle routing and scheduling.

It is now a norm in the convenience store supply chain that a logistics company (or companies) provides logistics services to both chain stores and their suppliers. The coverage rate of stores has become the major factor for winning in the marketplace of chain store businesses. Logistics companies need to establish a logistics center for each market area to provide quick response to the stores ...

Reverse logistics is an important process that is often misunderstood. Many organizations do not understand what processes and procedures to follow and how to manage reverse logistics efficiently. Though studies have shown the positive impacts of adoption of various reverse logistics practices, the researcher found no research works that specifically shown how adoption of reverse logistics prac...

Social Networks with Risk Management Jose M. Cruz Department of Operations and Information Management School of Business University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut 06269 and Anna Nagurney and Tina Wakolbinger Department of Finance and Operations Management Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 revised August 2005; appears in Naval Research Log...

show that the proposed method is an excellent forecasting tool for logistics management.

During the last two decades Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have strongly influenced organizational processes as well as logistics. Therefore, ICT provide many benefits in logistics sector, including time and cost reduction and improved efficiency and performance. However, new solutions and innovative ideas are constantly emerging which intrigues new possibilities for the reorg...

In this work we present the results of a survey on major challenges in humanitarian logistics. The survey was conducted among logistics managers of relief organizations, logistic service providers, and universities investigating in humanitarian logistics. The following issue areas were consulted: (1) Information and Technology, (2) Processes, Organization, Coordination, (3) Infrastructure, (4) ...