Since consideration of individual customer’ demands is of increasing importance, enterprises are in need of more flexible production for highly customized products even in serial production. Hence, innovative concepts for improved information logistics are necessary for competitive manufacturing. This paper presents an approach for integrated agent-based process planning and production control ...

In recent years, much more natural disasters, public health events and a variety of disasters, accidents have occurred. This paper proposes an index system for the evaluation of the performance of emergency logistics. Performance evaluation of a group of entities is frequently based on the values of several attributes and usually requires the weights of the attributes to be set in advance. Afte...

A growing cost pressure due to increasing transportation costs and a changing environment call for a flexible adaptability of the inbound logistics processes in the automotive industry. Therefore, these processes need to be continuously reviewed for efficiency potentials. This paper provides an optimization model that allows for the integrated cost assessment of supply and transportation concep...

The specific objectives of the modern Logistics Challenges are ‘smart, green and integrated services’ to achieve planning, scheduling and transport systems that are resource-efficient, climateand environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. In this concept the smart logistics is not only a trend in world industry and supply chain but also...

Many industries experienced a shift in sourcing and logistics strategies, the industrial demand for more dynamic logistics solutions with adequate IT support is increasing. Due to advances in wireless sensor networks and technologies, the transportation area in logistics industry is the most promising application field for new types of innovative services. The emerging applications in this fiel...

Logistics processes, where RFID technologies are applied to improve process efficiency and flexible organisation of collaboration is required in the foreground, pose challenges to process modelling, analysis and design in business process management. To meet these challenges, we propose in this paper an integrated approach which bundles XSLT nets, a novel variant of high-level Petri nets to mod...

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 ...

Direct sales channels, environmental legislation, and liberal returns policies contributed to the growth of returns flows. However, there is still a lot of re required to enrich the domain by modeling a decision framework and develop integrated architecture for product return as an enterprise system. Most of the av literature on forward supply chain system focuses mainly on physical transaction...