With the increasing innovation of new electronic devices continually entering the marketplace, manufacturers and retailers are seeking partnerships with third party logistics (3PL) providers that can decrease e-waste through reverse logistics for end-of-life devices. With the general public’s sentiment to preserve the environment for future generations, manufacturers and retailers as well as th...

Measurements of logistics costs are necessary for manufacturing companies to be able to evaluate the cost effects and trade-offs of logistics management decisions. This case study highlights the challenges ZF Friedrichshafen AG faced during the implementation of a process-oriented logistics-costs measurement framework. The discussion of possible solutions to these challenges leads to recommenda...

This article proposes a multi-scale model suitable for describing patterns of store locations in a large-size supply-chain system. This model uses continuum approximation to simplify the detailed logistics network and supports various levels of decisions, such as robust logistics network designs and service area allocations for distribution centers. Several definitions and formulas are develope...

With China's rapid economic development, electricity supply is relatively shortage, and the contradiction of power coal supply and demand is prominent. In this context, using WITNESS logistics software platforms, this paper establishes a simulation model about a power coal ocean shipping logistics system of a transshipment port as the center, focusing on how to make full use of the existing res...

Many studies have shown that the careful planning of construction logistics can result in significant saving. However, despite attempts to improve the logistics of construction materials, the purchase, delivery, storage and movement of materials are still conducted in a rather unstructured manner. In this paper, construction logistics are modeled and analyzed using Petri Net (PN) techniques. Th...

Data, information and knowledge are critical assets to the performance of logistics and supply chain management (SCM), because they provide the basis upon which management can plan logistics operations, organize logistics and supply chain (SC) processes, coordinate and communicate with business partners, conduct functional logistics activities, and perform managerial control of physical flow of...

Based on the theory of growth mode in circulation economy, this article analyses current situation and problems of China’s commodity circulation. It describes the impact of improving the level of logistics management on changing the growth mode of circulation economy from the perspective of logistics time value, location value and circulation processing value. It brings forward that improving t...

Operating reverse logistics in enterprise better or not is directly related to customers’ satisfaction and loyalty. Therefore, many enterprises usually adopt a policy to outsource their reverse logistics in order to strengthen their competence in the market. How to design an incentive mechanism is a key problem in reverse logistics outsourcing management. Through the reputation effects model pu...

Because of the impacts from the road conditions and the hostile attacking, the military logistics distribution in wartime should consider the pressure degrees of various demand points to the materials, so it is much more complex than the common logistics. Aiming at the actual situation of the military logistics distribution in wartime, the basic ant colony algorithm is improved in the article, ...

A survey of 1,200 manufacturing firms in Taiwan was undertaken in order to examine the relationships among logistics measurement capabilities (including general measurement and benchmarking), logistics performance, and financial performance. Results showed that general measurement capability (which refers to functional measurement, total cost analysis, and customer-oriented measures) is the mos...