one of the important issues in transportation and logistics systems is vehicle routing problem (vrp). the vehicle routing problem is concerned with finding efficient routes of minimum total cost, beginning and ending at a central depot, for a fleet of vehicles to serve a number of customers. on the other hand, as a result of the increasing environmental concerns, economic problems and pressure ...

For the special relationship between logistics service quality and customer loyalty under the environment of C2C, on the basis of the three dimensions of Operation Logistics Service Quality, Relationship Logistics Service Quality and Cost Logistics Service Quality, the paper analyzed the relationship between customer satisfaction for third-party logistics service quality and customer loyalty fo...

Forward-reverse logistics network has remained a subject of intensive research over the past few years. It is of significant importance to be issued in a supply chain because it affects responsiveness of supply chains. In real world, problems are needed to be formulated. These problems usually involve objectives such as cost, quality, and customers' responsiveness and so on. To this reason, we ...

This volume is a collection of commissioned contributions, edited by James H Bookbinder, to follow up on a special issue of the journal Transportation Research E, edited by the same editor, which focused on Global Logistics. One of the goals of this volume is to have perspectives of logistics researchers in different geographic areas. Part I consists of four chapters. The first chapter by Chen ...

While the amount of information relevant for enterprises and organizations grows ever more, the decisions and operational tasks depending on information are becoming more complex. Accurate and readily available information is indispensable in problem solving, decision-making, and knowledge-intensive work. Studies on information use show that information overload is perceived as a problem in org...

Today‟s production systems face the challenge of high dynamics and rising complexity which calls for new ways of production planning and control. Autonomous control in logistics lets each logistic object take its own decisions and thus leads to a shift from central planning in advance to production control in real time. This paper presents the results of a comparison of different autonomous con...

This paper proposes a new model of simultaneous optimization of three-level logistics decisions, for logistics authorities, logistics operators, and logistics users, for regional logistics network with environmental impact consideration. The proposed model addresses the interaction among the three logistics players in a complete competitive logistics service market with CO2 emission charges. We...

With development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. Therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. Today, one of t...

Background: In the current knowledge age, performance of logistics firms increasingly depends on and capabilities they can leverage in value-creation processes. The objective this paper is to investigate relationship between knowledge-based human resource management (HRM) practices organizational mediated by capability. Methods: Data from 93 small Finnish service providers was collected a quest...