The structure is the basic attribute of everything. The structure of logistics network is composed of logistics nodes and logistics routes, however the logistics cost mainly happens on the function the logistics route undertakes. So logistics routing optimization is the key to reduce logistics cost. As logistics is the hygiene factor of regional economic development, this article studied on log...

Several new applications of mobile computing environments, such as Intelligent Transportation Systems, Fleet Management and Logistics, and integrated Industrial Process Automation share the requirement of remote monitoring and high performance processing of huge data streams produced by large sets of mobile nodes. Two key requirements for the deployment and operation of such mobile infrastructu...

Because the transport expenses are more than a half the national logistics expenses, the increase of the transport expenses becomes the cause of an increase of national logistics expenses. To decrease of the logistics expenses, it has to develop logistics management application. Many Transport Companies are serving monitoring position of the transport vehicle, but the position data of the movin...

We present a discrete event simulation model reproducing the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for the optimal management of common logistics processes of a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) warehouse. In this study, simulation is exploited as a powerful tool to replicate both the reengineered RFID logistics processes and the flows of Electronic Product Code (EPC) dat...

This paper analyses cost aggregation in a supply chain. It provides a literature overview on the key concepts of cost aggregation, multimodal transport, logistic chain and maritime transport. The focuses on the value adding process with logistics data and assesses the costs accumulation during the transport process. The paper also reveals multimodal impacts on the logistics costs. The research ...

the use of third-party logistics (3pl) providers is regarded as new strategy in logistics management. the relationships by considering 3pl are sometimes more complicated than any classical logistics supplier relationships. these relationships have taken into account as a well-known way to highlight organizations' flexibilities to regard rapidly uncertain market conditions, follow core competenc...

The cost budget of distributed enterprises depends on large quantities of operating data and aggregates data. Policymakers of these enterprise groups work out their cost budget according to their subjective judgement and experience. The reasons for their doing so are that scattered data memory is short of unified format and standardization and that current data fail to reflect their dynamic cha...

The success of a supply chain is highly dependent on selection of best suppliers. These decisions are an important component of production and logistics management for many firms. Little attention is given in the literature to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data in supplier selection process. This paper proposes a new integrated data envelopment analysis (DEA) model whic...

A Latent-Class Selection Model for Nonignorably Missing Data Most missing-data procedures assume that the missing values are ignorably missing or missing at random (MAR), which means that the probabilities of response do not depend on unseen quantities. Although this assumption is convenient, it is sometimes questionable. For example, questionnaire items pertaining to sensitive information (e.g...