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Optimization of international transport chain may significantly contribute a successful outcome of international trade. The performance of various transport mode influences its selection. This paper analyses and compares the transport chain between China and Austria, aiming to identify the best practices and choose the optimal transport mode. Based on analyzing secondary data, the different transport...
This paper describes diverse supply chain enterprises from a different point of view-service positioning. Supply chain covers from transportation, storage, produce, distribution processing, information management, service plan and integration, to consultation. On basis of that, it's necessary for every supply chain enterprise to identify self-positioning in market competition, which, for example,...
Logistics network design is an important strategic decision. With the development of globalization, more companies outsource their logistics and the third-party logistics companies have become the mainstream. So how to design a reasonable logistics network is important to both manufacturers and 3PL. this article analyses the situation of 3PL and provides a model in logistics network design. Finally,...
In light of evolutionary theories, China has experienced dramatic institutional transitions in financing large transport projects in recent decades, resulting in two new equilibria: the rise and fall of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). This article looks at the adoption of PPPs as a phenomenon of institutional transplantation or policy transfer, describes these two equilibria and explains the path...
In recent years, China's logistics enterprises are developing rapidly, however, at present most of the services provided by logistics enterprises cannot meet the personalized, diversified needs of customer', and the profits are very low. This paper analyses the present situation and existing problems of logistics enterprises in China from the perspective of supply and demand and put forward the idea...
Distribution center location is reasonable or not has a direct impact on a corporation's logistics costs, which will further affect the development of the corporation. To supermarket chains, reasonable distribution centers addresses can reduce costs and enhance the competitiveness; what's more, it has a great influence on the development of the corporation. On the basis of fully awareness of the significance...
We present a pattern-oriented service design and evolution approach by transforming the high-level service value network into service choreography scenario. In this approach, “value” is considered the ultimate goal of a service, and designing an executable SOA-based service system starts from the acquisition of business-level value exchange relationships between participants in the service. Such value...
Based on Two-stage Correlative Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), the empirical analysis on the business efficiency of expressway listed company is divided into two sub-processes. The results show that two-stage correlative DEA is more effective than traditional DEA in analyzing business efficiency of expressway listed company. Then this paper evaluates the analytical results of each company, and some...
After theoretical considerations of organizational changes, the research findings were presented in relation to the following: the selection of the optimal model for implementation of organizational changes in the maritime company that is the subject of analysis and establishing of the character of the correlation between the organizational changes, the productivity level and the ship service time...
The Internet is a significant channel for any business. While the favorable circumstances sustained by this phenomenon appear valuable, there is still much argument and cogitation on how to utilize the World Wide Web. The tourism industry, in contract with many other industries is a combination of service providers that are basically categorized with other industries in the national system of accounts...
As the price of gas contributes to the cost of providing taxi service, the fuel price should be a component of the fare. However, should the fare rise together with the gas price? The government and the public may not agree. Even if the fare is adjusted, the range and method of adjustment need to be examined. The authors suggest that local governments promote the use of fuel-efficient cars and gas...
This paper describes the building-up of Three-gorges Logistics Center (TGLC), analyzes the current plight which TGLC faces with because of the influence of serious global economic influence resulted from American's Subprime Mortgage Crisis, and based on which proposes short-, medium- and long-term countermeasures of the TGLC's building-up.
In this study rational evaluation indicators were established to study Shanghai urban rail transit system, and the method of Extended Contributive Rule (ECR) was used to hierarchically analyze rail transit service quality, determines the different levels of service, and identifies various people groups' requirement difference in the service quality. It was aimed to objectively evaluate Shanghai urban...
The improvement of logistics performance will improve the retailer's capability of quick response to the market changes, and impact the organization performance positively. However, if something could not be measured, it could not be managed, and could not be improved also. Based on defining the conceptual framework of logistics mode, this paper analyzes the impact of it on logistics performance measurement...
Since the non-tradable reform, the private equity placement becomes one of the best popular ways of equity refinancing in China's listed companies. The market and supervision authorities in the multiple expectations place on the private equity placement as an important innovation of the equity refinancing. This paper based on information asymmetry hypothesis examines: Why do listed companies choose...
This paper is concerned with the comparison of a factory managed inventory (FMI) supply chain to a traditional forecast-based orders supply chain. The particular emphasis of this paper is the impact the FMI structures have on the ''Bullwhip Effect'' generated within the supply chain. We especially focused on the relationship between the sales site and the factory site, and the developed FMI supply...
This paper presents a novel method for multiple attribute decision making problems, in which interval numbers are used to assess the weights of attributes, and fuzzy linguistic variables are utilized to evaluate the suitability of alternatives versus various attributes. In the face of interval attribute weights, a definition of effective attribute weights and its representation are developed. Based...
This paper presents a multi-attribute group decision making method to the supplier selection problem. An analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method is used to weight the weighting and alternatives. Three MADM methods-SAW, WP and TOPSIS are used for synthetic decision. This paper formulates the equipment supplier selection process in the semiconductor industry as an MADM problem, and presents suitable...
Intensified globalization and consequent competitive pressures have reemphasized the importance of third party logistics (3PL). Logistics distribution management is the core of logistics management. In this paper, We study a mathematics method to determine the logistics distribution location for reducing the logistics costs.
In the perspective of three dimensions for resource-capacity, organization-capacity and outcome-capacity, the article establishes the indexes of accomplishment appraisal. And sum-of-weighted-square method for accomplishment adjustment is put forward. Further, empirical research on accomplishment appraisal for international liner shipping enterprises is achieved and arrives at effective conclusions.
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