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...

Through analyzing the value of the activities in the process of express delivery, the model of logistics value chain analysis (LVCA) of express enterprises is constructed. Using the model, the express enterprises can identify the key activities from the whole process of express delivery from senders to receivers, and those key activities constitute the logistics competitiveness of express enter...

Logistics cost is an important factor that affects the competitiveness of nations as well as firms. High logistics costs and low levels of service are a barrier to trade and foreign direct investment and thus to economic growth. Shortening of production cycles, amplification of competition globally, sharing and outsourcing of production processes, shorter delivery times and plethora of choices ...

Agricultural and fishery products are during transport often require low temperature conditions of transport, in order to meet the basic performance of the product. Enterprises must change the product logistics and transport conditions for cold chain that can be applied to the field of logistics and ensure its quality. In this paper, logistics and transportation in Ningbo, for example, found th...

This paper proposes an innovative uncertainty management using a stochastic model to formulate logistics network starting from order processing, purchasing, inventory management, transportation, and reverse logistics activities. As this activity chain fits well with Markov process, we exploit the very principle to represent not only the transition among various activities, but also the inherent...

Ülkelerin lojistik kapasiteleri ve alt yapıları uluslararası ticarette kilit bir noktadır. Bu açıdan ülkeler, Lojistik Performans Endeks sıralamasında üst sıralarda olabilmek adına daha çok performans göstermek durumunda kalmışlardır. Endeksi, ülkelerin faaliyetlerine ilişkin durumları göstermektedir. endeksinde, gümrük düzenlemeleri, maliyetleri taşıma modlarında kullanılan altyapının durumu h...

From the mid-1980s, Morocco confirmed its choice to liberalize trade so that international could become a lever for development. However, despite these ambitions, persistence of deficit has led us reflect on challenges exports and factors can trigger emergence new competition. At this level, logistics one key circumvent obstacles affect supply Moroccan exports. This paper aims study assess impa...

Efficient logistics systems move essential medicines down the supply chain to the service delivery point, and then to the end user. Experts on logistics systems tend to see the supply chain as requiring centralized control to be most effective. However, many health reforms have involved decentralization, which experts fear has disrupted the supply chain and made systems less effective. There is...

Traditional methods and approaches to the evaluation of company performance are fundamental deficiencies in the fact that provide only a retrospective view of the company's competitive position that existed at some point in the past. This analysis are both static and outdated, but in addition also incomplete. Traditional financial indicators do not tell anything, why the overall results are as ...

With the increasing demand for customized logistics services in the manufacturing industry, the key factor in realizing the competitiveness of a logistics service supply chain LSSC is whether it can meet specific requirements with the cost of mass service. In this case, in-depth research on the time-scheduling of LSSC is required. Setting the total cost, completion time, and the satisfaction of...