Logistics processes in a globalised economy are increasingly complex, dynamic, and distributed. These properties pose major challenges for logistics planning and control. Conventional centralised approaches are frequently limited in their efficiency due to the high number of logistics objects and parameters to be considered. As an alternative, the paradigm of autonomous control in logistics del...

How to dig latent and useful logistics information resources from massive comment data of e-commerce logistics service is the foundation and key to improve logistics management and service quality. This paper aims to deal with text contents of E-commerce logistics service comments based on Chinese word segmentation, and uses LDA theme model to discover the potential topics in the comment texts ...

The logistics industry is an important driving force for national economic development, and the cost of logistics is an important factor to measure the level of development of the logistics industry. The economical and social benefits due to the effective logistics cost control are notable, and it becomes the most direct means in extending the third-part profit. Therefore, how to implement the ...

“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...

in this paper, a new model is proposed for the integrated logistics network designing problem. in many research papers in this area, it is assumed that there is only one option for the capacity of each facility in the network. however, this is not a realistic assumption because generally there may be many possible options for the capacity of the facility that is being established. usually the c...

Japan, as one of the most developed country in logistics field in the world, has developed its logistics parks earlier. This paper takes Japan’s logistics park as the subject in research. By analyzing Japan’s experiences of developing logistics parks, this paper tempts to find out problems in China’s logistics parks and put forward suggestions for further development and construction.

In the closed-loop supply chain, many suppliers opt for self-recycling or entrust retailers to recycle. Under both recycling channels, member responsible can undertake outsource logistics services. This paper investigates how consumers’ environmental awareness and cost-saving affect optimal combination of channel logistics-service strategy. To this end, we mathematically formulate supplier-led ...

With the increased complexity and uncertainty in business operations, adaptive and collaborative business processes and exception management (EM) are gaining attention. In the logistics industry now, logistics exceptions are managed using human resources together with the traditional workflow technology-based supply-chain management or other logistics tools. The traditional approach models and ...

The article is devoted to the definition of strategic imperatives for development logistics infrastructure Ukraine in conditions formation a new economic model – paradigm closed cycle economy. It substantiated that effective functioning economy any country impossible without creation proper as factor aggregate demand, environment which movement goods. In general, high level provides following p...

The importance of logistics has changed enormously in the last few decades. While logistics was formerly one of the core functions of most companies, logistics or at least parts of their functions are nowadays outsourced to external logistic service providers in terms of contracts. As a result of this shift new business models like the fourth party logistics provider emerged, which designs, pla...