In this paper, we address a two-echelon humanitarian logistics network design problem involving multiple central warehouses (CWs) and local distribution centers (LDCs) and develop a novel two-stage scenariobased possibilistic-stochastic programming (SBPSP) approach. The research is motivated by the urgent need for designing a relief network in Tehran in preparation for potential earthquakes to ...

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...

Recently, urbanization has been expanded rapidly in the world and a number of metropolitan areas have been appeared with a population of more than 10 million people. Because of dense population in metropolitan and consequently increasing the delivery of goods and services, there has been a lot of problems including traffic congestion, air pollution, accidents and high energy consumption. This m...

During the last decade, reverse logistics networks received a considerable attention due to economic importance and environmental regulations and customer awareness. Integration of leading and reverse logistics networks during logistical network design is one of the most important factors in supply chain. In this research, an Integer Linear Programming model is presented to design a multi-layer...

In this work we present a collaborative model for logistics process management addressing the problem of the integration of activities of a 3 party logistics (3PL) operator. The scope of a 3PL operator is to achieve a balance between the warehouse and transportation costs and customer service level. In our model we define a collaborative network in which the 3PL operator interacts with subcontr...

Natural disasters occur frequently in recent years, causing huge casualties and property losses. Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to the emergency logistics problems. This paper studies the emergency logistics problem with multi-center, multi-commodity, and single-affected-point. Considering that the path near the disaster point may be damaged, the information of the state of the pa...

This paper develops an economic assessment of a multimodal transport network for single pallets. A shipment-size choice model is estimated to calculate the shippers’ reactions and their economic benefits from that transport network. In the model, the major factor influencing logistics decisions—the balance between warehouse and storage cost—is explicitly taken into account. The functional form ...

In the course of developing a distributed logistics command and control application based on the Cougaar agent architecture@ttp://www.cougaar.org/). we were faced with a Iorge knowledge representation problem. The logistics agents needed to reason about many thousands of different types of logistics assets, where each asset had hundreds of attribuies. The problem is factorable, however, in that...

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate a methodology for designing and evaluating the operational planning for interplanetary exploration missions. A primary question for space exploration mission design is how to best design the logistics required to sustain the exploration initiative. Using terrestrial logistics modeling tools that have been extended to encompass the dynamics and requi...

In this paper we present the development of an integrated process analysis toolkit for humanitarian logistics. The toolkit integrates a conceptual and a technological component. Our approach follows a case study-based modeling and design approach. The developed concept was evaluated in two humanitarian organizations. Based on these results we extended and integrated the tool-supported process a...