BACKGROUND Contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) is a vital indicator used by country governments, international donors, and other stakeholders for measuring progress in family planning programs against country targets and global initiatives as well as for estimating health outcomes. Because of the need for more frequent CPR estimates than population-based surveys currently provide, alternative a...

In recent years the possibility of applying knowledge management to logistics and to logistics planning has been put forward in literature. Despite of these discussions knowledge management has not been implemented in logistics in large scale. To draw a clear picture of the current state-of-implementation and understand the impact knowledge management activities have on a company’s logistics pe...

Global logistics aim to optimize and control the material/product flow and the information flow so that materials/products can be moved at a desired pace, in a proper fashion and at the right volume. The production processes in the medical equipment manufacturing industries are highly automated and dynamic and the orders are customized. This study presents an intelligent global logistics system...

Industrial production and trade require efficient and reliable supply networks. Growing interrelations between these networks and the inherent dynamics of the logistics domain result in a high complexity of global supply processes. Application of conventional centralized planning and control to these processes suffers from that complexity. Therefore, a need arises for decentralized methods empl...

1.1.1 Introduction Logistics management is currently facing major challenges. The integration of the value chain and the growing importance of spatially and organi-sationally distributed production networks strongly increase the need for logistical coordination. Growing customer orientation requires product customization and increased responsiveness in order delivery, thereby raising flexibilit...

Introduction Common practices in current urban logistics planning in Scandinavia and the UK, and the degree to which SUTP (Sustainable Urban Transport Plan), SUMP (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) and SULP (Sustainable Urban Logistics Plans) guidelines are used, are examined in this paper. Methods A systematic literature review identifies relevant studies based on predefined inclusion criteria...

Corresponding Author: Hea Choon Ngo Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, 76100, Melaka, Malaysia Email: [email protected] Abstract: Planning is widely been used in many areas such as in medicine, administration, business, logistics, education, environment and family matters. In automated planning research, the word “plans” refers specifica...