The 21st century is an age of information with constant development of computer network, which has brought much convenience for people’s life; while logistics is an indispensable part of modern people’s life. Since people are having higher and higher demand for quality of life, the traditional logistics management system hasn’t been able to adapt the market. Internet, as a necessary product of ...

Mechanism Design is the art and science of designing rules of a game to achieve a specific outcome; mechanism design is the reverse engineering of games. It has been successfully applied to a variety of high impact problems in Internet and network economics: Internet advertising, spectrum auctions, electronic procurement, logistics, supply chain management, grid computing, wireless networks, pe...

The main aim of this paper is to propose a multi-waste mix integer lineal programming model for locating sorting facilities in a three-level (local, regional, and central) reverse logistic network. The objective of the model is to decide the location of the storage and sorting facilities across the network. The model was applied in end of life battery recycling network in Spain. As capacity is ...

Intrinsic characteristics of food products and processes along with growing sustainability concerns lead to the need for decision support tools that can integrate economic considerations with quality preservation and environmental protection in food supply chains. In this study, we develop a multiobjective linear programming (MOLP) model for a generic beef logistics network problem. The objecti...

Reverse Logistics Networks (RLNs) have grown in importance after return policies became compulsory. Lately, questions have been raised whether they are as helpful to the environment as possible. Efforts have been conducted to optimize RLNs in terms of their eco-efficiency, minimizing costs and emissions; still, results are not advancing with the necessary speed. Alternatively, the ecoeffectiven...

We study an integrated inventory-location problem with service requirements faced by an aerospace company in designing its service parts logistics network. Customer demand is Poisson distributed and the service levels are time-based leading to highly non-linear, stochastic service constraints and a nonlinear, mixed-integer optimization problem. Unlike previous work in the literature, which prop...

Research on the location-routing problem (LRP) is very active, producing a good number of effective exact and approximated solution approaches. It is noteworthy that most of the contributions present in the literature address the single-commodity LRP, whereas the multi-commodity case has been scarcely investigated. Yet, this issue assumes an important role in many LRP applications, particularly...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2011.11.011 ⇑ Tel./fax: +886 2 86625932. E-mail address: [email protected] Due to the IT advances, the logistics management faces a change to the new era. This article proposes a novel method to evaluate the real-time overall performance of a logistics network for a supply chain. The corresponding strategies to manage the...

This article proposes a multi-scale model suitable for describing patterns of store locations in a large-size supply-chain system. This model uses continuum approximation to simplify the detailed logistics network and supports various levels of decisions, such as robust logistics network designs and service area allocations for distribution centers. Several definitions and formulas are develope...