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The growing importance of the online channel and the increased deployment of new technologies such as smart mobile devices and social networks create new opportunities and challenges for traditional retailers. The retailing industry is moving to a new phase, in which the distinctions between traditional and online channels disappear, namely omni-channel (OC) retailing. The new challenge is to understand...
System landscapes within logistical scenarios is highly heterogenic. Adding specific mechanisms, e.g. to support planing, monitoring and analyses for fully electrical powered vehicles, could become a mess or at least a challenge. While our project Smart City Logistic (SCL) is trying to manage this extension for multiple logistic scenarios, other projects want to do comparable system extensions as...
Increasing of population leads to escalation of demand needs which results in busier logistics activitities. Collaborative strategy has become an alternative to manage these activities, depending on the conditions in a certain location. This paper applied collaborative distribution model to Yogyakarta city, in order to see whether the collaboration is beneficial. The performance of collaborative distribution...
A consortium consisting of five Hungarian institutions of higher education during the past two years, using European Union's support performed workout of a project that connected to development of industrial relations, to education development, to expansion of research cooperation, of international relations and to development of university organisation services on the territory of vehicle industry...
This work consists in presenting an information system for planning routes for deliveries of goods. A company that has many products to be delivered in different places find it difficult to define the best combination of loads to be carried, and what better vehicle availability, and lower cost route for the delivery of goods in load order. With the system it is intended itinerary delivery of the goods...
The development of international sourcing and overseas flows are at the core of Renault's supply chain strategy. In order to link distant assembly plants with suppliers, Renault relies on a worldwide network of cross-dock logistics platforms. These centers act both as information and physical consolidation point. In other words, from the point of view of an assembly plant, the logistic center performs...
Third party logistic (3PL) providers commonly offer integrated operation, warehousing in addition to the transportation services. A distribution problem experienced by the Logistics & Distribution division in one of the leading 3PL providers in Jakarta is studied in this paper. Starting 2008, this division partitioned Jakarta province into three clustered areas in which a main dedicated courier...
With short product life-cycles, frequent delivery schedules of products are demanded by customers. Efficient outbound logistics operations are key goals of companies wishing to maintain customer satisfaction and achieve competitive advantage. However, in current warehouse operations, order picking and loading are performed separately and products are picked manually from warehouses according to customer...
In this paper we propose four ontologies for semantic modeling of information for Freight Transportation Exchanges and we discuss the relationships between them. They play an important role in semantic modeling of freight transportation entities and in supporting the development of agent-based semantic logistics services. This work complements our previous proposal of an agent system for brokering...
This article describes an exact method based on a Branch & Cut algorithm for the multi-region vehicle routing problem in large quantities by a heterogeneous fleet of vehicles. Test results on different problem instances are presented after have been solved by CPLEX.
At present, the effective management of logistics to some extent provides tangible benefits in the development of any business. Under current conditions, the inventory transactions are inextricably related to the information streams. Moreover, data are circulated not only within the corporate information ERP-systems, but also generated in other material objects, which include vehicles and various...
This study aimed to improve the transportation management of a case study company which produced seasoning powder. Recently, they had two main problems in logistics department: high transportation cost and long vehicle scheduling time. Thus, the objectives of this study were to reduce transportation cost and scheduling time. Due to the delivery in Bangkok and metropolitan area, this problem became...
Our paper processes the case of the subsidiary of car manufacturer who imports containers of constituents (components) of cars to be assembled locally. The road transport of these containers is assured by a company of road transport which has to affect to each reservation, optimally, one or more containers while meeting the deadlines proposed by the customers, the employment regulations and the availability...
Logistics costing provides useful information for decision makers when planning or evaluating logistics services and functions. The traditional procedures applied for calculating logistics costs are, however, not always able to deliver the requested information due to the use of arbitrary allocation techniques. This paper introduces a calculation approach for logistics with more exact cost allocations...
This paper discusses a new practical variant of the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) that incorporates a combinatorial auction (CA) problem, which originated from the regional transportation planning of oil products for a prominent Chinese petroleum company. During peak seasons, the petroleum company needs to outsource some transportation projects to third party logistics (3PL) providers...
Many problems with present conventional delivery scenarios in urban areas are caused by use of conventional vehicles. These problems are amongst others limited efficiency, ecological damages, disturbance of moving traffic and pedestrians and difficulties to comply with environmental and traffic regulations, affecting local communities, business people and their customers as well as the logistic companies...
The construction of port logistics information platform is very important to improve the competitiveness of port in the supply chain. According to the characteristics of port supply chain, we give an analysis of port supply chain operation. The integrated operation and pull supply chain are used in port to improve the flexibility and agility of the port service. The function modules of port logistics...
Cooperating with China Materials Storage & Transportation Association, Modern Logistics Study Center of Zhejiang Gongs hang University examined the current status of storage, transportation and logistics industries, with a magnitude covering logistics and storage companies in different cities in Zhejiang, China. The object is to fully comprehend the scale, geographical layout and development level...
There exists workflow represented by business flow and network flow represented by products flow and vehicle flow in Logistics Enterprise, and there are also obvious interaction and impacts between the two flows. At present, the researches on logistics information platform mostly separate them, and thus affect the working efficiency of the system. This thesis proposes the idea of integrating workflow...
The paper expanded study on traditional VRP by introducing the concepts of economical distribution area and distribution outsourcing according to actual distribution demand, and established decision models of distribution outsourcing from the perspective of economical distribution. It provided a dynamic particle swarm optimization algorithm based on subgroup collaboration for solving the models. Finally,...
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