The markets globalization is one of the factors creating conditions for the development of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship does not have one generally accepted definition. Most often, entrepreneurship is perceived as the ability to increase the number of enterprises. Entrepreneurship can be understood as the potential to identify and use development opportunities regardless of own resources....

In e-commerce, Business-to-Business (B2B) interactions, like e.g., electronic negotiations and auctions between suppliers and customers, could be significantly improved by enabling their participants to adapt their negotiation and bidding strategies to current logistics information (e.g., about estimated transportation cost) while the interaction goes on. In this paper, we present an agent-base...

In order to solve closed-loop logistics network design problem in the low-carbon economic environment, in this paper, queuing theory is used to calculate the amount of storage of reverse logistics nodes and interval number is used to describe the uncertainty of the logistics network, a bi-objectives logistics network design model which minimum the total cost and carbon emissions of logistics ne...

Taiwan’s manufacturing capability is always the most internationally competitive. However, in recent years, because of the high labor and land costs in Taiwan, Taiwanese enterprises have been forced to move overseas such as Southeast Asia. When the Taiwanese enterprises invest in Southeast Asia, how to select an appropriate logistics service provider becomes a very important issue. Combining th...

Manufacturing and logistics are globally facing transformational changes. The introduction of new technologies and the advances in equipment and intelligence capability are having profound effects on production and logistics in practice. New solutions for manufacturing and logistics are evolving to respond to various needs. In particular, production and services are transformed from vertically ...

Requirements against logistics services are getting more and more rigorous. Costs and prices have to be decreased significantly, at the same time reliability and quality levels are to be increased continuously. Therefore meeting market demand quickly and efficiently requires sound and effective decision making processes. That’s why the managers of logistics service providers as well as the lead...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide future researchers with a framework for conducting research in the unique field of humanitarian logistics. Design/methodology/approach – The authors categorized humanitarian logistics research articles. Borrowing from the theory of constraints and management information systems literature, the authors developed a framework for research. Findings...

The development of cold-chain logistics will not only contribute to solving the food safety problems, but also effectively promote the development of agriculture industry and animal husbandry industry. In order to be well informed of the core competence in cold-chain logistics enterprise, we evaluated the competence of cold-chain logistics enterprise in China with the combination of analytic hi...

In the "Internet +" environment, with the emergence of new ideas and new technologies such as mobile Internet, big data, cloud computing etc., the traditional logistics industry begin to integrate deeply with the Internet. Through defining the concepts of "Internet +" and "Internet + logistics", the paper analyze the value connotation of "Internet + logistics" from three aspects as integration ...

This paper proposes an innovative uncertainty management using a stochastic model to formulate logistics network starting from order processing, purchasing, inventory management, transportation, and reverse logistics activities. As this activity chain fits well with Markov process, we exploit the very principle to represent not only the transition among various activities, but also the inherent...