We consider a fourth party logistics service provider (LSP), who faces the problem of distributing different products from suppliers to consumers having no control on supply and demand. In a fourth party set-up, the operations of transport and storage are run as a black box for a fixed price. Within certain boundaries with respect to variability in supply and demand, the LSP is bound to meet ce...

Drawing on the resource-based view, we propose a configurational perspective of how IT assets and capabilities affect firm performance. Our premise is that IT assets and IT managerial capabilities are components in organizational design, and as such, their impact can only be understood by taking into consideration the interactions between those IT assets and capabilities and other non-IT compon...

one of the important issues in transportation and logistics systems is vehicle routing problem (vrp). the vehicle routing problem is concerned with finding efficient routes of minimum total cost, beginning and ending at a central depot, for a fleet of vehicles to serve a number of customers. on the other hand, as a result of the increasing environmental concerns, economic problems and pressure ...

Due to green legislations, industries track the used products through reverse logistics contractors. A reverse logistics programme offers significant cost savings in procurement, transportation, disposal and inventory carrying. Since reverse logistics operations and the supply chains they support are considerably more complex than traditional manufacturing supply chains, it can be offered to th...

The fourth party logistics which acts as a new role will increasingly play more and more important functions. In this paper, for a given deformation problems of 4PL providers’ evaluation, We builds up a fourth party logistics evaluating indicator system based on four factors, which are quality, technical abilities, collaboration and price. Besides, we studies the analysis methods of grey correl...

Over the last decades, transportation has been evolving from a necessary, though low priority function to an important part of business that can enable companies to attain a competitive edge over their competitors. To cut down transportation costs, shippers often outsource their transportation activities to a logistics service provider of their choice. This paper proposes a new procedure that p...