A New Open-source System for Strategic Freight Logistics Planning: the SYNCHRO-NET Optimization Tools

Business Perspectives for Freight Transportation Management - The SYNCHRO-NET Project

Nowadays, the effects of globalization impacted on the international trade that is growing faster. To confirm this trend, the volume of world trade continued to grow in the 2015, according to the estimates provided by the World Trade Organization. In this context, the challenge for transportation is to overcome the complexities related to higher service quality, time-sensitive delivery, the inc...

Freight Transportation Planning and Logistics

A well-functioning freight transportation system is an essential element in any successful economy. However, at the beginning of the new millennium, the prediction is that the demand for goods movement will outstrip the rate of improvements to the physical infrastructure. Marked growth in time-sensitive freight markets will tax demands on a system that already is operating near capacity in some...

The Strategic Planning for Open Systems Environoments

Interactive Human-Guided Optimization for Logistics Planning

Logistics planning is an important problem in industry, where goods have to be parceled appropriately to meet delivery dates or reduce shipping costs. This optimization problem is classically solved offline using standard algorithms and focused heuristics, e.g. bin packing or route planning. However, in practical work environments, constraints may change flexibly and it is often not clear what ...

Enterprise Resource Planning: An Open Source System

Over the last decade, ERP systems have assumed great importance in the IT sector because it offers myriad benefits which include sales forecasting, centralization of data, order tracking, decision support, competitive edge, and many more. To achieve all such kinds of benefits, FOSS (Free and Open Size Systems) are gaining importance in the IT industries. The main objective of this research pape...