Minimum cost delivery of multi-item orders in e-commerce logistics

Multi-agent framework for third party logistics in E-commerce

In an e-commerce environment, the third party logistics (3PL) takes charge of the logistics design, delivery, storage and transportation in a supply chain with its professional and complete value-added services. Beginning with an analysis of the relationships between the 3PL and supply chain members, the authors suggest that only when the 3PL reengineers its logistics business process to accomm...

The Development Strategy of E-Commerce Logistics in Beijing

“Warehouse explosion phenomenon” of e-commerce, the last one kilometer electricity supplier logistics problems and high cost of logistics and other issues, has become a troubled electricity supplier and logistics companies the biggest problem. Therefore the major commercial enterprises have chosen enterprise logistics operation model according to the different characteristics of their respectiv...

Third Party Logistics in E-Commerce Environment in China

Business-to-Business E-Commerce in a Logistics Domain

Today companies outsource part of the service provisioning to other companies that are not part of their core competence. Companies can use current workflow management systems to control the progress of the service process within one organisation. However, with business-to-business e-commerce, service processes extend beyond organisational boundaries and the workflow management paradigm should ...

Experimental Study of Scalability Enhancement for Reverse Logistics E-Commerce

Methods of improving scalability in online auctions include limiting the number of bidding opportunities, providing price information to users, and recommending auctions that may be of interest to the users. We constructed an experimental prototype auction system in the context of reverse logistics for electronics products. Experiments were designed to test the effects of the number of trading ...