Purpose – Awareness of environmental impacts on our society is increasing among companies. In order to turn environmental problems into business opportunities, many companies are beginning to consider how environmental, or green aspects can be integrated into their service offerings. This opportunity can be of specific interest to logistics service providers, whose core business is an environme...

To effectively optimize multi-objective logistics distribution path, the distance and distance related customer satisfaction factor are used as the objective function, a novel kruskal crossover genetic algorithm (KCGA) for multi-objective logistics distribution path optimization is proposed. To test the optimization results, the terminal distribution model and the virtual logistics system opera...

Extant literature is inconclusive regarding how adoption of logistics information technology affects various measures of performance. We propose that an organization’s adoption of logistics information technology is positively related to increased levels of efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility and contrary findings may be partially attributed to the moderating role of a positive buyer-sup...

The purpose of information logistics is to ensure that the right information, which is necessary in accomplishment of business tasks, is available in the right location, in the right time, and in the right quality. Different combinations of models have been suggested for supporting this purpose. However, none of them includes the model that corresponds to the time dimension of information logis...

In recent years, logistics outsourcing has shown a strong development. However, despite the benefits associated with logistics outsourcing, there are many relationships that do not last as long as they were initially planned. In this chapter the authors tried to sketch a conceptual model of Risk Management applied to logistics outsourcing and supported by a case study within aerospace industry....

The current trends and recent changes in logistics lead to new, complex and partially conflicting requirements for logistic planning and control systems. Due to the distributed nature of logistics the usage of agent technology is promising. Due to the mobile nature of logistics the usage of mobile agent technology is promising as well. Scenarios of usage of mobile agents in logistics are presen...

Through the study of forest-pulp enterprise production logistics pulping flow sub-system and production elixir flow sub-system, Petri nets model and the object-oriented model as the theoretical basis, and puts forward the enterprise production logistics subsystem compound model, and discusses the pulping process based on the composite model of logistics balance mathematical principle.

In this paper we consider the role Electronic Commerce plays and can play for Reverse Logistics. After short introductions to electronic commerce and reverse logistics, we give an overview of existing internet sites for reverse logistics. These sites can be classified as electronic markets, supply of used parts and complete reverse logistic solutions. Finally we draw some lines to the future.

This paper presents the main matters of RFID as the modern tool using in reverse logistics management. It is very important to understand the power of reverse logistics, because nowadays the traditional one is not enough to deal with all environmental problems facing companies. The reason for this article is to analyze the reverse logistics evolution, to show its basic terms, rules and conditions.

Logistics service performance through information technology has become an increasingly important issue for tourism. A conceptual model with six hypotheses was developed to depict the relationships amongst tourism suppliers’ service quality, logistics service performance, perceived service value, tourists’ satisfaction and loyalty. Structural Equation Modeling was employed to analyze 425 respon...