Based on BP neural network model, this paper aims at evaluating the performance of cold chain logistics of agriculture products. This paper analyses on the basis of the fresh business' current situation of cold chain logistics, sums up the bottleneck of China's cold chain logistics of agriculture products operation, provides competitive and practical fresh electric cold chain distribution mode ...

Through the analysis of Travelling Salesman Problem with Pickup and Delivery (TSPD) in the related research, two kinds of logistics systems including whole logistics system and partial logistics system under one-to-many logistic network are considered. And mathematical model is set up, then, nested cost optimization model is set up in order to meet the constraint condition of nested order cycle...

At present, China's automobile logistics cost accounts for more than 20% of the production of motor vehicles. Therefore, lowering logistics cost by seeking its best path is an effective way to lower the cost of automobile manufacturing. This paper combines the Graph Theory and the genetic algorithm to research the optimizing problem of the lines of logistics distribution. Traffic flow data unde...

Immense levels of data and the complexity of current logistics networks have made software support indispensable. Recurring calculations in network design and transportation planning can be automated with the help of planning software. Furthermore sophisticated algorithms are available to improve planning performance and reduce planning efforts. After a brief introduction of requirements in log...

According to the new tendencies in marketplace, such as the growth and spread of e-commerce and e-business, Supply chains and Logistics are naturally being modeled as distributed systems. Companies are organized as Demand and Supply network and the global logistics system is performed by a large-scale world-wide network of local service enterprises. Referring to such scenario, multiagents and o...

Taniguchi defines City Logistics as “the process of totally optimising the logistics and transport activities by private companies in urban areas while considering the traffic environment, traffic congestion and energy consumption within the framework of a market economy”. The distribution of goods based on road services in urban areas contribute to traffic congestion, generates environmental i...

The rapidly growing biofuel industry poses considerable challenges to its supply chain network design and operations. In this chapter, we introduce key characteristics of the biofuel supply chain that comprises of feedstock production, biomass logistics, biofuel production and distribution. We then discuss the recent literature on biofuel supply chain models. Using an illustrative biofuel suppl...

The main objective of this paper is to propose a model for helping logistics managers to choose the appropriate location points in order to situate the collection points for used portable batteries. The proposed model has two parts: a static part and a dynamic part. We can conclude that this model helps managers in the decision of locating/modifying collection points in two ways: to add new col...

In this paper, a reverse supply chain network is investigated for a decision making. This decision is surrounded by complex flows of returned products, due to the increasing quantity, the type of returned products and the variety of recovery option products (reuse, recycling, and refurbishment). The most important problem in the reverse logistic network (RLN) is to orient returned products to t...