Nowadays, organizations are facing two major challenges. First, huge amount of consumed products is considerably destructing the environment and on the other hand, because of increasing competition in business environment, creating long-lasting competitive advantage and long-term relation with customers has become a necessity for organizations to survive and thrive. In this competitive conditio...

Complex logistics audit system Complex logistics audit system is a tool for realization of logistical audit in the company. The current methods for logistics audit are based on “ad hok” analysis of logisticsl system. This paper describes system for complex logistics audit. It is a global diagnostics of logistics processes and functions of enterprise. The goal of logistics audit is to provide co...

Purpose The aim of the article is to identify gaps in research and to set up a research agenda that investigates how gender attributes and different sets of skills contribute to logistics performance. The article focuses on humanitarian logistics and outlines the areas in which gender issues impact on the effectiveness of the provision of aid following a disaster. Design/methodology/approach A ...

The exact calculation of logistics costs has become a real challenge in logistics and supply chain management. It is essential to gain reliable and accurate costing information to attain efficient resource allocation within the logistics service provider companies. Traditional costing approaches, however, may not be sufficient to reach this aim in case of complex and heterogeneous logistics ser...

Performance measurement of logistics companies is based upon various performance indicators. Yet, in the logistics industry, there are several vaguenesses, such as deciding on key indicators and determining interrelationships between performance indicators. In order to resolve these vaguenesses, this paper first presents the stakeholder-informed Balanced Scorecard (BSC) model, by incorporating ...

Neural networks are a data processing technique that provides us a powerful tool to handle non-linear data and model complex relationships between data. Self-organising maps, a type of neural networks, has been used successfully as an exploratory data analysis method in applications like presenting the welfare states of the countries or analysing and representing financial data. Logistics inclu...

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...

Supplier relationship management is an important challenge for shippers in logistics outsourcing. This paper attempts to understand the factors which affect inter organizational relationships performance in third party logistics and proposes a conceptual framework specifically for inter organizational relationship performance in third party logistics. We also draw a set of propositions from pub...

The need for performance measurement systems is imminent in the construction "rms. Construction "rms have many simultaneously ongoing construction projects, from which the relevant performance information is needed. There are also tens of material groups and subcontractors, whose performance should be monitored together with construction "rms' practices. In addition to monitoring, performance m...