This paper investigates the cold chain logistics network design in first mile for fresh agricultural products with government subsidy, involving capacity, location of storage facilities, and transportation from production areas to facilities after harvest. A bi-level programming model is formulated considering quality degradation products. Based on proposition KKT conditions, a solution method ...

The 21st century is an age of information with constant development of computer network, which has brought much convenience for people’s life; while logistics is an indispensable part of modern people’s life. Since people are having higher and higher demand for quality of life, the traditional logistics management system hasn’t been able to adapt the market. Internet, as a necessary product of ...

This paper analyzed the current problems of Higher Education on logistics and personality characteristics of college students, through the process of "National Container Cup" Logistics design competition discussed the significance that the Logistics design competition can make for enhancing the comprehensive abilities of logistics professional college students and Logistics teaching for teacher.

Logistics planning in disaster response phase involves dispatching commodities such as medical materials, personnel, food, etc. to affected areas as soon as possible to accelerate the relief operations. Since transportation vehicles in disaster situations can be considered as scarce resources, thus, the efficient usage of them is substantially important. In this study, we provide a dynamic vehi...

This study focuses on recovery options for end-of-life tires (ELTs). One of the most proper ELTs is incineration them in cement plants. There are 49 integrated factories which have Environmental Permit and License Certificate Turkey as final processing plant. Besides benefits recovering to environment, cost aspect process crucial. In this study, logistic network design waste sent from collectio...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2011.11.011 ⇑ Tel./fax: +886 2 86625932. E-mail address: [email protected] Due to the IT advances, the logistics management faces a change to the new era. This article proposes a novel method to evaluate the real-time overall performance of a logistics network for a supply chain. The corresponding strategies to manage the...