The opinions of logistics educators in Taiwan on OR practices in the domestic logistics industry are explored in this research. In this study, questionnaires were given to 42 pre-screened educators at 10 logistics departments and graduate institutes. According to the 37 valid returned questionnaires, 70% of the responding educators believe the major source of OR techniques in Taiwan’s logistics...

Maritime logistics is referred to as the process of planning, implementing, and managing the movement of goods and information which is involved in the ocean carriage. As a central component of global logistics systems, maritime operators such as shipping lines, port terminal operators and freight forwarders now have to perform both sea transport-related services and other related and wider log...

In the past, logistics used to be a core function of production and trading companies but many of them started to outsource at least parts of their logistics functions to specialized logistics service providers in terms of logistics contracts. With this, sophisticated business models such as value added logistics service providers evolved which focus on tasks of planning, coordination and monit...

a r t i c l e i n f o In the last decade, the growing economy in Taiwan has brought about rapid growth in the logistics demands of enterprises. An important goal in the field of third party logistics (3PLs) is to improve the performance of logistics activities to enhance operation efficiency and enterprise competency. However, the employee performance must be determined in order to improve the ...

Progressively firms give more importance to management of processes of return that supposed excess inventories, customer returns, obsolete inventories and seasonal products ,that is to say, to the processes Reverse Logistics (Srivastava & Srivastava, 2006). So it increases the need for information flexibility because this one helps to reduce uncertainty of these processes (Koste & Malhotra, 199...

In the course of developing a distributed logistics command and control application based on the Cougaar agent architecture@ttp://www.cougaar.org/). we were faced with a Iorge knowledge representation problem. The logistics agents needed to reason about many thousands of different types of logistics assets, where each asset had hundreds of attribuies. The problem is factorable, however, in that...

Mobile business is a successor of electronic business and is defined as exchange of goods, services and information with the help of mobile devices. In the paper we investigate potentials of wireless technology for logistics and develop criteria of suitability of logistics processes for mobile business. Furthermore, we investigate core logistics tasks and consider possible applications of mobil...

The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is an important and critical aspect in the field of Reverse Logistics. The strategic importance of good treatment of waste is fundamental for reaching the objectives of environmental protection (as energy, natural resources, waste reduction) and economics goals (the lower cost of secondary raw materials for example). The followi...

There are a variety of risks because of many factors’ influences in the process of logistics outsourcing. The logistics outsourcing risks are taken as the objects of study, based on rough sets model, the initial decision table is made reduction using Johnson Reducer algorithm, the weight coefficient of each risk index is determined by calculating the importance of attributes in the decision tab...

Because of the disconnection between the Logistics services trading platform and the EDI customs clearance system, the logistics clearance data needed to be gathered manually, and the efficiency of customs clearance was rather low. In view of this problem, a logistics data exchange method based on the XML technology was proposed, which firstly achieved the batch extraction and conversion of the...