The importance of logistics has changed enormously in the last few decades. While logistics was formerly one of the core functions of most companies, logistics or at least parts of their functions are nowadays outsourced to external logistic service providers in terms of contracts. As a result of this shift new business models like the fourth party logistics provider emerged, which designs, pla...

The integration of the Just-In-Time (JIT) system with supply chain management has been attracting more and more attention recently. Within the processes of the JIT system, the upstream manufacturer is required to deliver products using smaller delivery lot sizes, at a higher delivery frequency. For the upstream manufacturer who adopts sea transportation to deliver products, a collaborative thir...

a r t i c l e i n f o In the last decade, the growing economy in Taiwan has brought about rapid growth in the logistics demands of enterprises. An important goal in the field of third party logistics (3PLs) is to improve the performance of logistics activities to enhance operation efficiency and enterprise competency. However, the employee performance must be determined in order to improve the ...

The study aims to analyse warehouse value-added services (VAS) data for a third-party logistics (3PL) service provider, which leads identifying improvements and cost-cutting opportunities in performing VAS clients using Pareto analysis as quality tool. Using case approach, qualitative quantitative were collected from leading 3PL firm Belgium. approach is conducted by applying major steps of ana...

This volume is a collection of commissioned contributions, edited by James H Bookbinder, to follow up on a special issue of the journal Transportation Research E, edited by the same editor, which focused on Global Logistics. One of the goals of this volume is to have perspectives of logistics researchers in different geographic areas. Part I consists of four chapters. The first chapter by Chen ...

The p-median problem has been widely studied in the literature during the last decades especially its linear version. We propose a capacitated p-median problem with concave costs, in which the global cost incurred for each established facility is a concave function of the quantity q delivered by this facility. The unit distribution cost decreases with the increased quantity of output or demand ...

Abstract Supply-chain management of the forest industry focuses on improving client services which requires efficient collaboration between organizations in practice. Therefore, third party logistics (3PL) and fourth (4PL) companies were analyzed using a survey inductive organizational gap-analysis. The supply-chain 3PLs asked for better quality information from factories logistics. They also n...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang 317000, P.R. China Abstract We consider an integrated production and distribution scheduling problem faced by a typical make-to-order manufacturer which relies on a third-party logistics provider for finished product delivery to customers. In the beginning of a planning horizon, the manufac...

Currently, there is still a strong trend in research and the market connected with role of 3PL (third-party logistics) companies developing creating coordination logistics networks. The most important issue for following paper examination enterprise, which able to create demand forecasts gain functions fields inventory management transportation planning. This focuses on showing forecasting tool...

Growing environmental concerns have motivated businesses to carefully assess the environmental impact of their products and services at all stages of a life-cycle. Reverse logistics plays an important role in achieving ‘‘green supply chains’’ by providing customers with the opportunity to return the warranted and/or defective products to the manufacturer. An efficient reverse logistics structur...