Using a sample of companies drawn from Logistics Association Australia’s current membership list, this study assessed the relative importance assigned by shippers and logistics service providers (LSP) to various elements of third party logistics services. The importance-performance matrix (IPM) analysis was conducted to assess the gap between what is required by the shippers and what is provide...

This article establish an efficient electronic commerce logistics operation system to reduce distribution costs and build a logistics network operation model based on around the B2C electronic commerce enterprise logistics network operation system. B2C electronic commerce transactions features in the enterprise network platform. To solve the NP-hard problem this article use hybrid ant colony al...

The business opportunity and scale of American logistics market are important to global logistics operators. Logistics operators in Taiwan are facing the unavoidable question of establishing multinational logistics organizations and strengthening the strategic operational planning in line with international practice. Thus, they will encounter opportunities and challenges when expanding their sc...

The Authors compare the organization structure and market-based capabilities of American and Brazilian Logistics Service Providers in their respective countries. Using the resource based view approach, the authors propose that an LSP’s organization structure influences its service capabilities, which in turn will influence satisfaction and performance. The results indicate that the individual m...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a method to identify customer (sustainability) demands, map these via price equivalents and use the equivalents for green logistics target costing. We use the methodology of Expert Survey and Choice Based Conjoint Analysis to study purchase decisions and determine customers’ price readiness for sustainable logistics services. The results are inter alia th...

Recently, urbanization has been expanded rapidly in the world and a number of metropolitan areas have been appeared with a population of more than 10 million people. Because of dense population in metropolitan and consequently increasing the delivery of goods and services, there has been a lot of problems including traffic congestion, air pollution, accidents and high energy consumption. This m...

We are concerned with trade in transport services (not cabotage but rather international shipping, transport, and related logistical services) and the importance of competition and market structure in the sector. We examine implications of liberalization for profits, trade, and national gains from trade. Though past GATS maritime negotiations involved the maritime nations, we also flag interest...

Believe that VSM involves the concurrent improve of processes, organizations, and their supporting information systems to achieve radical improvement in time, cost, quality, and customer’s regard for the company’s products and services.  Nowadays, simulation is the most important way to do VSM and improving logistics processes. A time study was performed by measuring the time duration per proce...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a clustering approach to segment supply chain partners in the automobile industry and prioritize services offered by third party logistics service (3PL) providers. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 98 automobile and auto-parts manufacturers are surveyed to identify service needs, preferences, and outsourcing commitments. By applying a two-...

By adopting principles of cloud computing to the logistics domain the paradigm of Cloud Logistics is derived. It appears to be a promising paradigm in order to evolve logistics into being more flexible and collaborative. Yet, appropriate concepts that enable the cloud logistics paradigm are missing. In the paper, existing body of literature is reviewed and a definition and a framework of cloud ...