In contemporary organizations, a wide gamut of options is available for sustaining and supporting health care operations. When disaster strikes, despite having tenable plans for routine replenishment and operations, many organizations find themselves ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and without effective mechanisms in place to sustain operations during the immediate aftermath of a crisis. Health car...

Logistics processes in a globalised economy are increasingly complex, dynamic, and distributed. These properties pose major challenges for logistics planning and control. Conventional centralised approaches are frequently limited in their efficiency due to the high number of logistics objects and parameters to be considered. As an alternative, the paradigm of autonomous control in logistics del...

A well-functioning freight transportation system is an essential element in any successful economy. However, at the beginning of the new millennium, the prediction is that the demand for goods movement will outstrip the rate of improvements to the physical infrastructure. Marked growth in time-sensitive freight markets will tax demands on a system that already is operating near capacity in some...

Logistics, transportation and distribution engineering can be divided into internal or in-plant logistics and external manufacturing or distribution logistics. The Internal or in-plant logistics includes the material handling systems and storage systems and the external manufacturing or distribution logistics includes the transportation modes such as trains and trucks. Both must be integrated i...

In the last decade the efficiency of the Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems has been increased significantly. New systems appeared that are able to cope with planning problems being orders of magnitude more complex than the ones solvable in early 90's. This vast improvement increase was made possible mainly by three new approaches in plan generation: planning graphs, satisfiability planni...

The business opportunity and scale of American logistics market are important to global logistics operators. Logistics operators in Taiwan are facing the unavoidable question of establishing multinational logistics organizations and strengthening the strategic operational planning in line with international practice. Thus, they will encounter opportunities and challenges when expanding their sc...

Traditionally, logistics analysis for space missions has focused on the delivery of elements and goods to a destination. This type of logistics analysis can be referred to as “macro-logistics”. While the delivery of goods is a critical component of mission analysis, it captures only a portion of the constraints that logistics planning may impose on a mission scenario. The other component of log...

The exact calculation of logistics costs has become a real challenge in logistics and supply chain management. It is essential to gain reliable and accurate costing information to attain efficient resource allocation within the logistics service provider companies. Traditional costing approaches, however, may not be sufficient to reach this aim in case of complex and heterogeneous logistics ser...

According to the basic content of location advantage, from the market, transportation, competition environment and other factors, such as four aspects, analysis of location factors influencing express logistics node location. Put forward based on location factors evaluation and location advantages express logistics node location two-phase model of evaluation. An express logistics node location ...

In this paper we analyze the effect of information technologies (IT) on the environmental performance of firms. In particular, we study the moderating effect of IT on the relationship between a firm’s environmental practices and its environmental performance. The paper considers two moderating effects –namely, IT-enabled coordination and IT-enabled control. IT-enabled coordination refers to the...