background: with the rapid development of health services, the progress of medical science and technology, and the improvement of materials research, the consumption of medical consumables (mcs) in medical activities has increased in recent years. however, owing to the lack of effective management methods and the complexity of mcs, there are several management problems including mc waste, low m...

Neural networks are a data processing technique that provides us a powerful tool to handle non-linear data and model complex relationships between data. Self-organising maps, a type of neural networks, has been used successfully as an exploratory data analysis method in applications like presenting the welfare states of the countries or analysing and representing financial data. Logistics inclu...

today, due to the direct and reverse logistics plays an important role in reducing the costs in supply chain. in this paper, in order to provide a closed-loop supply chain network including supply centers, production, distribution, collection, recycling and disposal of a used linear mixed integer programming. this paper to consider multi-period and multi-product in multi-level supply chain and ...

RFID technology in logistics system is widely used as the core in Internet of things and plays an important role in the field of logistics management. The EPC code is stored in the RFID tag, can realize the identification of the real target. Cloud computing is a distributed processing, parallel processing and grid computing development, distributed in a large number of distributed computers thr...

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...