Due to the significant growth in the demand for logistics services and the ongoing trend towards the outsourcing of logistics activities, logistics service providers have concurrently gained a significant profit-making opportunity and faced the unprecedented challenge of surviving in the midst of increasingly fierce market competition. This research thus aims to propose routing strategies that ...

Forschungsplattform Alexandria https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch | 06.05.2013 Both, the logistics and insurance companies rely on software intensive systems and IT-infrastructure to run their core business operational. In recent years ITimprovements have resulted e.g. in better tracking and tracing capabilities for the whole logistics industry. Designing an interface in this case between the logi...

Logistics network design is a major strategic issue due to its impact on the efficiency and responsiveness of the supply chain. This paper proposes a model for integrated logistics network design to avoid the sub-optimality caused by a separate, sequential design of forward and reverse logistics networks. First, a bi-objective mixed integer programming formulation is developed to minimize the t...

Production costing is a well developed area of cost management. There are several applications reported which make use of the up-to-date costing methods like activity-based costing. Nevertheless, research in product cost calculation has paid limited attention to logistics costing so far. This paper aims to investigate how logistics cost calculation can be integrated into production costing. The...

This study presents a prototype of the integrated logistic information system (ILIS) in the Google cloud computing environment. The ILIS is purpose to optimize resources in logistics business area, such as vehicles, human resources and fuel. This system is targeting to the small and medium-sized third-party logistics (3PL) company that are difficult to establish IT infrastructure, by providing ...

Complex and customized manufacturing requires a high level of collaboration between production and logistics in a flexible production system. With the widespread use of Internet of Things technology in manufacturing, a great amount of real-time and multi-source manufacturing data and logistics data is created, that can be used to perform production-logistics collaboration. To solve the aforemen...

In the United States, Joint Vision 2020 (www.dtic.mil/jv2020) identifies “Focused Logistics” as a key component of achieving dominance across the full spectrum of warfare in future conflicts. As a result, logistics must increase in its presence in military simulation environments in order to accurately portray a real-world military environment with all of its required complexity. To date, howev...

Logistics service providers (LSP) are facing an increasing complexity of the logistics sector, i.e. growing levels of process fragmentation plus increasing speed, customization and service demands of logistics clients. Adequate powerful, integrated ICT infrastructure and tools are a prerequisite for keeping pace with the ever increasing service level demands within international logistics. The ...

With the development of the global economy, the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are getting larger and larger, which brings more and more serious environmental problems to nature that already has great pressure. The traditional enterprise development usually takes the cost minimization and the profit maximization as the enterprise management goal, at the expense of the env...

in this paper, integrated direct and reverse logistics considering production, distribution, customer, devastation, retrieval centers under uncertainty are developed. in this model, cost parameters are not certain, thus the scenario-based robust optimization method is applied. the aim of this model is to minimize the total cost and obtain a robust solution. finally, a practical case study is pr...