in line with the efficiency is the principle of all organizations and planning managers, everyone is trying to identify the recovery factors and increased productivity,, according to the concerns of managers and support centers regarding to improve performance seems that education is part of the concerned and eliminates concerns that in this case the need for education in the logistics and the ...

Many businesses have now realized that a Reverse Logistics system can be used to gain competitive advantage. Even the best retailers and vendors now have reason to review how their returns programs are managed. New technologies and service providers now offer an opportunity to improve overall ‘total returns performance’. This means not only reducing the ‘total cost of returns’, but utilizing re...

The paper gives an overview of the modeling and analysis of autonomous control strategies for production logistics. A universal shop floor model, built with Vensim DSS, is introduced. AC strategies are discussed and implemented. The particularities of modeling a production logistic scenario are presented. Based on the simulation results the logistics performance as well as the influence on the ...

Purpose – This research aims to determine the current situation of outsourcing logistics activities in Turkey, a country which has a great potential for logistics activities among the surrounding continents because of its geographical location. Design/methodology/approach – Survey analysis was conducted with 250 of the top 500 Turkish firms specified by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce for the ...

The emergence of the extended manufacturing enterprise, a globally dispersed collection of strategically aligned organizations, has brought new attention to how organizations coordinate the flow of information and materials across their w supply chains. This paper explores and develops the concept of enterprise logistics Greis, N.P., Kasarda, J.D., 1997. Ž . x Enterprise logistics in the inform...

Quality and production logistics have been traditionally considered as separate fields, both by researchers and industrialists. However, during the design phase of production systems, the decisions taken as an answer to productivity requirements have an impact on product quality; similarly the decisions taken to meet quality requirements affect the productivity performance of the system. The pa...

Performance Measurement is still a difficult task for forwarding companies. This is caused on the one hand by missing resources and on the other hand by missing tools. The research project “Management Information System for Logistics Service Providers” aims for closing the gap between needed and disposable solutions. Core of the project is the development of a performance measurement system for...

This paper discusses demand and supply chain management and examines how artificial intelligence techniques and RFID technology can enhance the responsiveness of the logistics workflow. This proposed system is expected to have a significant impact on the performance of logistics networks by virtue of its capabilities to adapt unexpected supply and demand changes in the volatile marketplace with...

The economy, which has become more information intensive, more global and more technologically dependent, is undergoing dramatic changes. The role of logistics is also becoming more and more important. In logistics, the objective of service providers is to fulfill all customers’ demands while adapting to the dynamic changes of logistics networks so as to achieve a higher degree of customer sati...