Rapid advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) in recent years, coupled with the collapse of entry-to-market and other trading barriers, have changed significantly the way organizations operate in terms of business model and operating scale (Ritchie & Brindley, 2002). Globalization, lead-time reduction, customer orientation, and outsourcing are some major changes contribut...

Introduction In recent years, the heightened intensity of retail competition has drastically changed the way distribution companies operate their distribution systems. These changes include the application of the integrated logistics management concept to the analysis and design of their supply chains and, what is most important, extensive use of information technology to gain a competitive edg...

As logistics system becomes more complex, identifying and tracking a certain product or pallet in the whole process based on RFID in a real-time manner has played an important role. This study is focusing on identification, locating, tracking and dynamic management on logistics by using RFID technology. Firstly, an innovative scheme for the identification of an individual physical object throug...

(3) the rise of Pacific-rim economic bases. These landmarks precipitated unprecedented changes in the world economy by augmenting the global market wider than ever before. As the global marketplace expands, many multinational firms (MNFs) have been influenced by mounting pressures to develop a worldwide communication, distribution and information network that facilitates the free flow of inform...

This paper presents an overview on Logistics as a support tool for the configuration of Virtual Enterprises. This study was the basis used in the ESPRIT project PRODNET-II (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) to guide the proposition of some advanced co-ordination functionalities (ACFs) which were created to avoid the business chaos when co-ordinating one or more distr...

This study seeks to identify the means by which information technology helps cocreate relational value in the context of interfirm relationships in the logistics industry—a large and information-intensive industry. We identify a set of IT functionalities—single-location shipping, multilocation shipping, supply chain visibility, and financial settlement—that can be used to manage the flows of ph...

We develop an integrated approach for analyzing logistics and marketing decisions within the context of designing an optimal returns system for a retailer servicing two distinct market segments. At the operational level, we show that the optimal refund price is not unique. Moreover, it is such that if both market segments return a purchased product, then neither segment will receive a full mone...

We propose a new mathematical model for the optimization of logistics networks on the tactical level. Main features include accurately modelled tariff structures and the integration of spatial and temporal consolidation effects via a cyclic pattern expansion. By using several graph-based gadgets, we are able to formulate our problem as a capacitated network design problem. To solve the model, w...

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With an aim to resolve the problem of the increasing costs of supply chain in Manufacture Company, an integrated supply chain management model, driven by market demand, is brought forward in this paper, based on the analysis of existing integrated models of supply chain. The management model integrates purchase, production and sale plans with logistics plans used JIT. In order to build an integ...