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In the last decade many companies have recognized that important cost savings and improved service levels can be achieved by effectively integrating production plans, inventory control and transportation policies throughout their supply chains. In this paper, an integrated multi-commodity production and distribution planning model is presented. A proposed Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model is developed...
In cross-docking operations, planners need to coordinate the inbound, docking and outbound logistics operations to ensure a smooth flow of goods across the supply chain. The operation management of cross docking is a crucial task with high complexity for the logistics systems. This paper attempts to address the Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) of distribution centers with multiple cross-docks for processing...
This paper presents the first phase of a methodology for making transportation decisions in the Supply Chain (SC), in the first part of this article are the importance of transactional costs in transportation and their decision levels. Then interrelationships and dependencies of the criteria in Transportation Logistics Function (TLF). Finally presents design of the Multicriteria Decision Network (MCDN),...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a kind of the automatic identification technology which identifies an object by radio frequency mode for non-contact bidirectional data communication. It has been applied in many industries such as supply chain management, retail management, logistics management, security supervising, traffic supervising, and so on. This paper firstly introduces the principle...
We introduce a Multi-Point Stochastic Insertion Cost Gradient Descent (MuPSICGD) heuristic algorithm to solve multi-depot split-delivery vehicle routing problem (MDSD-VRP) through an innovative approach. We also describe two solution improvement techniques that can further enhance a fairly good solution. Our contribution is threefold: First we present a heuristic-based mechanism to solve multi-depot,...
A new supply chain model which integrates Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) and Third-party logistics (TPL) is discussed. Decentralized coordinating VMI&TPL supply chain model is built firstly. Based on the network which consists of “many vendors, one TPL and one manufacturer”, distribution logistics problem model of decentralized coordinating integrating supply chain of VMI and TPL is built. A simulated...
Automobile enterprises must be based on the survival of the entire supply chain's competitive edge relies on strengthening the supply chain, logistics cost management for enterprises increasingly become a priority project. In this paper, by using of supply chain management and logistics cost management theoretical knowledge, from the view of overall situation of automotive industry supply chain in...
The development and running of third-party logistics management system is not off logistics information technologies, such as barcode technology, RFID, EPC, GPS, GIS, RS, GMS, EDI, and so on, compositive application of the aforementioned enabling technologies can achieve storage management and control, physical distribution deployment and management, transport scheduling and monitor, information exchange...
The introduction of PHM based RCM has been a slow process and may be too big a step to be achieved in a single bound. We need an incremental way forward that deploys the elements of RCM founded on PHM such that each step is self-financing and lays the foundations for the next stage of deployment leading to a finished system and process. PHM based RCM is focused on the deployed equipment and its components:...
The theory of collaboration is used for supply chain management to constitute the collaborative transportation management (CTM), it can meet the requirements of lean transportation. Each transportation entity participating in collaborative transportation shall constitute the self organization and operation mechanism of competition-cooperation-coordination. Collaborative transportation system centers...
Logistics service suppliers are expected to make a reasonable collection routes to reduce service cost and improve service level. In this paper, the vehicle scheduling and routing model is proposed to choose optimal collection routes and to minimize the total cost which is composed by transport cost, overtime cost, punitive fine and inventory cost. A modified saving algorithm which takes the total...
Smooth logistics system contributes a lot to the success of chain operators, which is exerting ever increasing influence on China's economic development. This paper first analyzed the predominance of chain operators and then proceeded to the discussion of network implementation into logistics. Based on the reference of logistics advanced theory and the study of logistics chain management system, mathematical...
VMI (vendor managed inventory) policy coordinates effectively the antinomy between the inventory and the transportation within logistics distribution system. Under VMI mode, integrating inventory and transportation of the supplier and the demander as a whole is considered to achieve the optimization of total distribution cost. In view of typical one-warehouse multiretailer distribution network in...
As is well known that the natural disasters are usually uncertainty and unavoidable, the effective transportation and distribution of the material for disaster mitigation can relieve the disaster and reduce the influence on the peoples' life. In this article, the author summaries the characters of natural disasters and the difficulties faced by disaster relief people in the supply chain of the disaster...
The idea of milk run has been used in the context of logistic and supply chain problems in order to manage the transportation of materials. In this paper we develop a mathematical formulation for the problem of robust resource milk run, as a mixed integer approach, to manage supply chain problems. Since the resulted problem formulation is NP-hard we use robust optimization approach and compare the...
The multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time windows (MDVRPTW) is an extension to the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP); it is the major research topics in the supply chain management field. It aims to designing a set of minimum-cost routes for a vehicle fleet servicing many customers with known demands and predefined time windows.In this paper a hybrid metaheuristic algorithm is proposed...
This work proposes the use of pre-defined generalized stochastic Petri net (GSPN) components to model and evaluate outbound logistics. The modeling process takes into account the automatic generation of these stochastic models from high-level end-user-oriented descriptions. The model resultant from this translation is guaranteed to have some expected Petri nets' properties. The Stochastic Logistics...
This paper addresses inventory routing problem (IRP) in the context of integrating vendor managed inventory and third party logistics. The IRP model discussed in this paper has three main characters: based on strategy, three-tiered supply chain and many-TPL-one network. This paper describes the problem and assumptions in detail and builds a model and computation procedure for the IRP. A heuristic...
There is an abundance of information that outlines every new concept and idea on how to improve supply chain performance. But what works for one customer or company/industry will not necessarily work for another. In the world of supply chain, the one-size-fits-all tools no longer exist now. Companies that indiscriminately adopt new supply chain strategies many find their efforts failed. So the key...
With the recent rapid development of information and wireless communication technologies, there is an increasing use of real time tracking in the freight transport practices. However our understanding of the impact of such technologies on the supply chain structure and logistics performance has been very limited. Through an in-depth examination of a case example in UKpsilas FMCG industry, this research...
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