Mobile business is a successor of electronic business and is defined as exchange of goods, services and information with the help of mobile devices. In the paper we investigate potentials of wireless technology for logistics and develop criteria of suitability of logistics processes for mobile business. Furthermore, we investigate core logistics tasks and consider possible applications of mobil...

In e-commerce, Business-to-Business (B2B) interactions, like e.g., electronic negotiations and auctions between suppliers and customers, could be significantly improved by enabling their participants to adapt their negotiation and bidding strategies to current logistics information (e.g., about estimated transportation cost) while the interaction goes on. In this paper, we present an agent-base...

Requirements against logistics services are getting more and more rigorous. Costs and prices have to be decreased significantly, at the same time reliability and quality levels are to be increased continuously. Therefore meeting market demand quickly and efficiently requires sound and effective decision making processes. That’s why the managers of logistics service providers as well as the lead...

For the special relationship between logistics service quality and customer loyalty under the environment of C2C, on the basis of the three dimensions of Operation Logistics Service Quality, Relationship Logistics Service Quality and Cost Logistics Service Quality, the paper analyzed the relationship between customer satisfaction for third-party logistics service quality and customer loyalty fo...

Cloud computing (CC) services can offer substantial cost-effective global operational and relationship benefits if the cooperation between logistics and CC services are resilient. Potential vulnerabilities to cooperation of CC and logistics service providers can occur with respect to vital factors such as security and trust. Extant studies have demonstrated CC benefits as well as few challenges...

Purpose: The following investigation aims to deal with the competitive relationship among different warehouses & ports in the same company. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, Game Theory is used in carrying out the optimization model. Genetic Algorithm is used to solve the model. Findings: Unnecessary competition will rise up if there is little internal communication among different wa...

In this paper, after analyzing the predicaments that Chinese traditional logistics enterprises face while launching modern logistics services, the theory of reforming Chinese traditional logistics enterprises with Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is put forward. Then the basic implementation principles are discussed, and the steps of BPR are also analyzed for Chinese logistics enterprises. ...

Air transport industry has gradually increased its share of global passenger and freight traffic, and this trend has accelerated in the last 40 years. For the past decade, air-freight traffic growth has outpaced air passenger traffic growth by 1-2% each year. In the past, air-freight sector offered limited services, with heavy reliance on several intermediaries and a significant dependence on a...

The rapid development of mobile commerce (m-commerce) has profound influence on logistics industry. Firstly, through analysis that combines m-commerce and the logistics industry, the paper draws a conclusion that main m-commerce applications in logistics industry include cargo tracking, mobile inventory management, vehicle positioning and M2M (machine to machine) mobile services. Then, we think...

Sustainability is a key issue for companies offering products and services on the global market. The ever-increasing worldwide demand for raw materials in combination with the rising costs for materials and energy challenges companies to make their products, processes and services more sustainable. More and more customers are demanding sustainable products and services due to their increased aw...