Abstract With the development and advancement of reverse logistics concepts and practice, the evaluation and selection of vendors or partners for the specific function of reverse logistics support becomes more important. The factors that play an important role in selecting a third-party reverse logistics provider are different than the factors for selecting a forward provider. These factors are...

The logistics informatization of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives (SFC) plays an important role in the development of agriculture, and Softwareas-a-Service (SaaS) is the development trend of information technology (IT). Firstly, the state-of-the-art of IT on SFC and the enlightenment SaaS to the IT application in logistic are introduced. Then, analyzing of the characteristics of logistics manag...

The US Army’s logistics enterprise is truly enormous in scale and scope. However, it is not merely the size and complexity of the supply chain that causes difficulty, but rather the structure and policies within the system that are the root cause of persistent problems. Army aviation logistics has especially suffered from several disorders which are both systemic and chronic. This research proj...

Quick and qualitative services are not new issues anymore in Logistics but those are still important problems along with cost-cutting. Related to the issues, though advanced information technologies are introduced unceasingly from laboratories, yet there is long way to go for smooth and seamless information flows on physical distribution processes in the industrial field. For the reason, the st...

Supply chain management has become more and more difficult because of the increasing complexity and expansion of supply chains (SCs). In this context, collaboration and coordination of logistics flows among SCs’ actors, such as suppliers, customers, and logistics providers, play an important role to enhance SC performance in terms of time and cost. In this paper, the design and management of lo...

This article describes the different partnership strategies in the purchasing The paper compares the different customer-supplier relationships from the point of view of purchasing and deals with virtual companies in particular. Also, the contribution traces the architecture of the virtual organisations and analyses their advantages and disadvantages. The world of practice reveals that through t...

The trends and recent changes in logistics lead to complex and partially conflicting requirements on logistic planning and control systems. Due to the lack of efficiency of currently available strategies and methodologies, a new paradigm for logistics planning and control is required. An emerging approach is the analysis and design of autonomous logistic processes. Agents represent a modern app...

Efficient logistics control demands for transparency to inventory in the whole distribution network. However, current information technology (IT) solutions do not support creating inventory transparency to temporary storage locations, which poses severe problems for supply chain management in project-oriented industries. This paper presents how inventory transparency can be built with quick-to-...

Ancillary services such as those provided by logistics seem simple and straightforward, yet their role is often overlooked by hospitals. Recent studies indicate that logistics-related activities impact significantly on the quality of health care as well as on hospital costs. Hospital logistics contributes to the provision of care to patients by ensuring that all required services and resources ...

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is an important management problem in the field of physical distribution and logistics. Good vehicle routing can not only increase the profit of logistics but also make logistics management more scientific. The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) constrained by the capacity of a vehicle is the extension of VRP. Our research applies a two-phase algorithm ...