The costing and data mining of logistics costs will become increasingly important to all firms seeking competitive advantages. Activity Based Costing (ABC) is considered as the optimized and most promising method of costing and controlling logistics cost now, and logistics cost data mining based on ABC is playing a very important role in business management. The paper firstly analyses the costi...

Logistics models in information systems describe activities, organizations, transportation means, goods, and services being involved in logistics processes. The problem with most current such models, however, is a lack of formal semantics which prevents automated data integration across organizational boundaries. In this paper, we take the perspective of supply chain management and employ a wel...

Agility Logistics is a leading global provider of integrated logistics to businesses and government organizations. The company’s services include freight and shipping via land, air, and sea, as well as specialty services such as warehouse management, chemicals management, and logistics for trade shows and events. Founded in 1979 in the Middle East, the company has recently pursued an aggressive...

BACKGROUND We aimed to apply collaborative business intelligence (BI) system to hospital supply, processing and distribution (SPD) logistics management model. METHODS We searched Engineering Village database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Google for articles (Published from 2011 to 2016), books, Web pages, etc., to understand SPD and BI related theories and recent researc...

Third-party warehousing logistics has an important role in the development of external logistics. At present, the third-party logistics in our country is still a new industry, the accounting system has not yet been established, the current financial accounting system of third-party warehousing logistics is mainly in the traditional way of thinking, and only able to provide the total cost inform...

The aim of this paper is to capture the specific logistics problems and the new challenges that Japanese firms face in their operations in China, and to identify the key factors influencing the development of effective logistics management. The analysis is based on a case study of a Japanese firm that manufactures its products in China and sells in the Japanese market. The findings show that es...

Maritime logistics is referred to as the process of planning, implementing, and managing the movement of goods and information which is involved in the ocean carriage. As a central component of global logistics systems, maritime operators such as shipping lines, port terminal operators and freight forwarders now have to perform both sea transport-related services and other related and wider log...

Logistics processes in a globalized economy are increasingly complex, dynamic, and distributed. These characteristics pose major challenges for logistics management. Planning, organizing, leading and coordinating processes have become progressively more complex activities that are carried out by an increasing number of internal actors. Information inputs and outputs of these processes are more ...

with the strong development of logistics industry in our country, logistics professional talent demand is more and more strong, and the corresponding logistics professional talent training, but from the logistics professional education present situation: on the one hand, a large number of logistics professional graduates have been trained, on the other hand, the real society needed logistics pr...

Radio frequency identification technology (RFID) is a non-contact intelligent identification system, its main advantage lies in the wide range of recognition, information capacity, security, excellent resistance to abrasion, reusable. It can take place of the traditional bar code recognition technology, and be applied to the area of modern intelligence logistics management. This thesis introduc...