INTRODUCTION Twitter channels are increasingly popular at medical conferences. Many groups, including healthcare providers and third party entities (e.g., pharmaceutical or medical device companies) use these channels to communicate with one another. These channels are unregulated and can allow third party commercial entities to exert an equal or greater amount of Twitter influence than healthc...

Considering the probability of the logistics business successfully completed is influenced by the effort level of 4PL and 3PL, it will cause bilateral moral risk in the case that both sides of the factors of production cannot be checked. Using the principal-agent theory, the paper discusses both sides contracts in the centralized decision and distributed decision, founding that short-term contr...

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in today's globalization, an effective integration of production and distribution plans into a unified framework is crucial for attaining competitive advantage. this paper addresses an integrated multi-product and multi-time period production/distribution planning problem for a two-echelon supply chain subject to the real-world variables and constraints. it is assumed that all transportations a...

In logistics, questions as “Where is my container?” and “When does my container arrive?” can often not be answered with sufficient precision, which restricts the ability of logistics service providers to be efficient. Since logistics is complex and often involves multiple transportation modes and carriers, improving efficiency and saving costs in the supply chain requires communication between ...

We consider the problem faced by a company that must outsource reverse logistics (RL) activities to third-party providers. Addressing RL outsourcing problems has become increasingly relevant issue in the management science and decision making literatures. The correct evaluation and ranking of the decision criteria/priorities determining the selection of the best third-party RL providers (3PRLPs...