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With the fast development of mobile Internet, ecommerce has been widely applied to the living of the masses. Because of the strong dependence of e-commerce, logistics industry has attracted much attention. However, when users get convenient service from the logistics industry, their privacy is compromised. Addresses, phone numbers and other private information on the parcel are accessible to anyone...
The emerging markets are experiencing high growths, have massive and still expanding market sizes, and huge labor forces, but they also face significant constraints such as resource constraints, immature infrastructures, and low purchasing power. The internal gap between huge unsatisfied demands for low-cost products from the bottom of the pyramid and the weak economic foundation in emerging markets...
Information builds the base of modern logistics. In the past companies have started collecting basic parameters, but for the purpose of extended product-identification the existing approaches are not sufficient. In this paper we present a system for enhanced information acquisition based on inherent features of products. Our prototype includes a hardware installation as well as a software framework...
The environmental pollution and climate change are threatening people's daily life. Our country and government have taken more and more measures to control the carbon emissions, and there will be a carbon emissions trading market where enterprises can buy or sell their right to discharge carbon in our country soon. So the carbon emission costs have been a problem that enterprises have to take into...
Environmental deterioration problems have become increasingly prominent, which poses a serious threat to the survival and development of human society. cold chain logistics as the important method to ensure food quality, will generate huge energy consumption because it's strict temperature control, and the nonstandard logistics activity of cold chain logistics enterprise will cause the waste of resources...
Opening of China's logistics industry makes the growth of the logistics business faced with complicated contradictions. For logistics service integrator (LSI), enterprise wants to distinguish it from competitors and be better than the opponents in a dynamic market, the only way is to continue to innovate and maintain strategic flexibility, which keeps dynamic. Focusing on the theme of “how dynamic...
Drawing on theresource-based view (RBV), this study explores the capabilities portfolio of logistics service providers (LSPs) and sustainable competitive advantage. Cement transportation, as a kind of logistics services are selected, and the research model are built to analyze the portfolio of transport capabilities. Results show that different service strategies produce different impact on capability...
With people's increasing requirements for fresh products, how to improve logistics service quality becomes a key issue for logistics service provider. The cold chain logistics service provided by the enterprises varies considerably in quality. Considering the diversification of consumer requirements, logistics service providers see customer satisfaction as the important decision factors. This paper...
The paper aims to find out the factors leading to mismatch between the demand of and current supply of the logistics talents in northeast China and propose suggestions to the problem. We use investigation, questionnaire and modified Quality Function Deployment (QFD) methods. Firstly, an index system of enterprises demands for logistics talents and graduates supply by using Business, Logistics and...
At present, China's express market demands and supply capacity of the express service providers is increasingly prominent. In the view of the problems such as scattered, small, bad in the express industry in China, the collaborative mode of service network based on horizontal resource integration is proposed. Through the cooperative operation of the express enterprise service network, it is not only...
This paper mainly discusses about Alibaba under economic new normal “double eleven shopping festival” reasons for the slowing growth rate. We mainly analyze it from the following five dimensions. The first one is intensifying competition between the E-business in shopping festival double eleven. Ali is no longer a monolith. Second, Market education has been completed, consumers tend to be more rational...
With the fast development of logistics in our country, the competition between logistics companies becomes more and more fierce. In order to adapt to the change of environment, the third party logistics strategic alliance becomes a necessary trend. The strategic alliances and third party's logistics all have been studied more in the management science domain nowadays. In the realistic meaning, strategic...
Companies and individuals are becoming more dependant on technology, automated processes, the Internet of Things (IoT) and daily use of internet, mobile devices, and other tools that the technological revolution has created. But against the back-drop of rapid technological progress, cyber-threats have become a serious challenge that require immediate, continuous action. As cyber-crime poses an ever-present...
Modern biotechnology is one of the most promising high-tech fields currently, and the related pharmaceutical medicine industry has developed rapidly. However, the capital investment of China's pharmaceutical business is still far behind compared with the developed countries. The capital gap of pharmaceutical companies is large. Online financing is a new way of financing that has advantages of low...
The terms of logistic management in organizations and the use of information and telecommunication technologies in support of the management are inextricably intertwined. The fundamental benefit which business systems obtain by using logistics business information systems is the optimization of business processes. By using the logistics information systems the focus is shifted to those business processes...
In the situation that 4PL takes the logistics task of many supply-demand pairs, in order to provide efficient and timely logistics services, the problem of 4PL many-to-many network design with delivery time considered is studied. An optimization model is formulated, which minimizes the total logistics costs with the delivery time of the supply-demand pairs satisfying the required value. According...
The Direct Selling Industry in the Philippines is continuously growing as more people become direct sellers. With this, the ability of direct selling companies to manage its sellers will be a challenge. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), or the monetary value a customer is expected to contribute to the company before churning, is one measure that can be used as a basis for managing customers and for this...
This paper presents a survey which describes how small-medium enterprises (SMEs) implement and use their information system with respect to their logistic and production processes. The first part of the study identifies the characteristics of the companies and detects their general attitude towards information technology (IT). The second part propose a list of detailed logistic and production processes...
The purpose of this paper is to explain what the United Company for Trading (UCT) has done to reduce costs and improve operations. The study will highlight how Engineering and Information technology Systems can be used to improve operations of companies. This paper will also illustrate how to find solutions for warehousing and distribution problems, as well as suggest solutions for the problems that...
To achieve a high logistical performance, adjustments in production structure are inevitable. The impact of structural changes however remains unclear. To investigate the effects of changes concerning production structure on logistical targets, the use of simulation models is possible. In this paper, we propose an approach for dynamically generating simulation models of production structures using...
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