BACKGROUND With the rapid development of health services, the progress of medical science and technology, and the improvement of materials research, the consumption of medical consumables (MCs) in medical activities has increased in recent years. However, owing to the lack of effective management methods and the complexity of MCs, there are several management problems including MC waste, low ma...

The circulation of agricultural products is more complex and uncertainty than that of industrial products. The distribution channels of agricultural products are quite unique. The agricultural products logistics directly affect the efficiency of china’s economy since agriculture is still main part of the economy. At the same time, with the development of information technology, e-business has a...

Environmental governance is an important indicator of the development of green logistics. It mainly include the solid waste utilization rate, pollution abatement investment, sewage treatment rate of logistics industry. It takes Beijing as an example, compares the environment governance development level of Beijing with the country, and gets analysis and comparison of the development level of Be...

In this paper we define and compare Reverse Logistics definitions. We start by giving an understanding framework of Reverse Logistics: the why-what-how. By this means, we put in context the driving forces for Reverse Logistics, a typology of return reasons, a classification of products, processes and actors. In addition we provide a decision framework for Reverse Logistics and we present it acc...

Logistics has been an important part of every economy and every business entity. The worldwide trend in globalization has led to many companies outsourcing their logistics function to Third-Party Logistics (3PL) companies, so as to focus on their core competencies. This paper attempts to broadly identify and categorize the challenges faced by 3PL companies and discover potential gaps for future...

By way of literatures review and investigation, this paper combines general system theory, logistics management theory, collaborative theory with the industry realities in china. On the basis of the analysis, this paper studies the theory give a new definition of the emergency industrial logistics system. In the analysis of industrial emergency logistics system elements, structure, functions an...

The optimization of production logistics system is an important way to improve enterprise’s productivity, cut down cost and improve equipment’s utilization. Production logistics system is highly randomized, complicated and discrete system, which can hardly be modeled and analyzed in the traditional way, so computer simulation technology and eM-Plant simulation platform were introduced in the pa...

Pool segmentation is an essential step in the logistics management process for large-scale car rental business. Its main function involves dynamic decisions about pools clustering and regional logistics management centers selecting, whose goal is to optimize fleet utilization and improve the logistics management efficiency. According to developing mode of car rental enterprises and layout of le...

logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. the selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. in this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...