With the maturity of Internet-of-Things technology, location-based service (LBS) is developing rapidly in intelligent terminal devices, and it brings new vitality to fields logistics, transportation, product traceability so on. The popularity LBS produces a lot spatial data, which inevitably burden storage management provider (LBSP). help cloud computing storage, outsourcing data server has bec...

Considering the peculiarities of logistics in electronic commerce (e-commerce) supply chain (ESC) and e-commerce platform’s altruistic preferences, a model including an platform, third-party service provider, manufacturer is constructed. Based on this, three decision models are proposed equilibrium solutions obtained by Stackelberg game. Then, “altruistic preference joint fixed-cost” contract t...

Because of the intense pressure to contain R&D costs, pharmaceuticals firms are increasingly outsourcing their supply chain operations. Global supply chain outsourcing can be viewed as a strategic competitive weapon rather than cost savings initiative because it can offer flexibility in production, satisfy ultimate consumers’ growing demands, reduce fixed costs, and enhance positional advantage...

Outsourcing to third party manage non-core activities helps the firm focus on core activities. Manufacturing firms are outsourcing product development, manufacturing, logistics, customer care etc. enhance production capacity and flexibility, reduce operational costs, which in turn can improve profitability competitive advantage of enterprise. Sustainability operations supply chain is gaining mo...

The implementation of the urban underground logistics system (ULS) can effectively mitigate contradiction between surging demand and increased negativity logistics. widespread ULS still suffers from a lack research into its operation in marketplace, although on technology network design appears to be sufficient. A new supply chain for service based (ULS-SSC) was proposed, as embedded could lead...