Home Health Care (HHC) services are a growing sector in the medical service business. These services are based on a delivery network in which patients are hospitalized at their homes and health care providers must deliver coordinated medical care to patients. The fact that patients and medical staff's homes are considered as a component of the delivery network creates a difference from typical ...

Aiming at improving the efficiency of food cold-chain logistics network, shortening the logistic time of food and reducing the logistics cost of food, this study analyzes the optimization strategy and various cost factors of the supply network of food cold chain and establishes and expands a kind of logistics network model adapting to the food cold-chain logistics. We use an improved genetic al...

This study investigates environment sensitive and perishable products (ESPPs) logistics problem, which is called cold chain logistics problem (CCLs). Based on a comprehensive literature review, we found that there is much room to improve regarding of the risks management in cold chain logistics, that is, the development of a comprehensive cold chain logistics design methodology should considere...

Purpose: Network design of the supply chain is an important and strategic aspect of logistics management. In this paper, we address the network design problem specific to packaged gases (cylinder) supply chain. We propose an integrated framework that allows for the determination of the optimal facility locations, the filling plant production capacities, the inventory at plants and hubs, and the...

Cloud logistics comprises the virtualization of logistics resources from different logistics service providers. Those resources are pooled, combined and encapsulated within customer-specific modular logistics services. The pooling within networks comprises a high quantity of available logistics resources and services. Domain-specific structuring with the concept of the logistics service map hel...

in today’s competitive word, it is so important to offer a new way in the cycle of production and supply by which the maximum efficiency will be achieved. the problem of applying cross-docking operations in logistics and supply chain network design, as a new and applicable approach, has attracted much attention in both academic and industrial areas. the matter making this strategy be highly wel...