We propose a new mathematical model for the optimization of logistics networks on the tactical level. Main features include accurately modelled tariff structures and the integration of spatial and temporal consolidation effects via a cyclic pattern expansion. By using several graph-based gadgets, we are able to formulate our problem as a capacitated network design problem. To solve the model, w...

Immense levels of data and the complexity of current logistics networks have made software support indispensable. Recurring calculations in network design and transportation planning can be automated with the help of planning software. Furthermore sophisticated algorithms are available to improve planning performance and reduce planning efforts. After a brief introduction of requirements in log...

Optimization is accepted by logisticians as the appropriate approach to network design. While network design is used to make decisions regarding many aspects of logistics networks, one set of important decisions relates to the number, location, and size of warehouses in the network. Managers must also determine the customers to be supplied from each warehouse. Because of the costs involved in o...

Nowadays, the cooperative intelligent transport systems are part of a largest system. Transportations are modal operations integrated in logistics and, logistics is the main process of the supply chain management. The supply chain strategic management as a simultaneous local and global value chain is a collaborative/cooperative organization of stakeholders, many times in co-opetition, to perfor...

Planning cost-effective logistics operations involve the integration of multiple decision-making levels. In domain supply chain management, last decades have seen emergence 3PL service providers that specialize in integrating warehousing and transportation services. this paper, we study performed by a provider management French restaurant chain. The planning process is assisted solving Logistic...

For expediently integrating service partners and software modules to enhance the openness and service level of the manufacturing integrated service platform, the browser/server/database architecture is presented as its software architecture, on this basis, its function structure is divided into preponderant manufacturing resource sharing system, intelligentized and independent design system for...