Nowadays, in highly competitive global markets and constant pressure to reduce total costs, enterprises consider group technology and Supply Chain Management (SCM) accordingly and usually separately as the key elements for intra and inter facilities improvement. Simultaneous consideration of the elements of these two disciplines in an integrated design can result in higher efficiency and ...

Today’s competitive business environment has resulted in increasing cooperation among individual companies as members of a supply chain. Accordingly, third party logistics providers (3PLs) must operate supply chains for a number of different clients who want to improve their logistics operations for both forward and reverse flows. As a result of the dynamic environment in which these supply cha...

Logistics, transportation and distribution engineering can be divided into internal or in-plant logistics and external manufacturing or distribution logistics. The Internal or in-plant logistics includes the material handling systems and storage systems and the external manufacturing or distribution logistics includes the transportation modes such as trains and trucks. Both must be integrated i...

At present, with the adjustment of the structure of the steel industry, the steel logistics industry is also engaged in integrating. Steel logistics resource integration is an important problem to be solved. Based on previous research on steel logistics resource integration, this paper proposes a new research perspective on steel logistics resources integration: supply-demand network of steel l...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.cie.2011.11.011 ⇑ Tel./fax: +886 2 86625932. E-mail address: [email protected] Due to the IT advances, the logistics management faces a change to the new era. This article proposes a novel method to evaluate the real-time overall performance of a logistics network for a supply chain. The corresponding strategies to manage the...

How can we deal with the increasing scale of large logistics network for the booming economy? The structure, mechanisms and principles upon the logistics network show an evolutionary tendency which is complex, and interesting for designing and optimizing logistics network. The adaptability, stability and evolution capability are attractive for artificial intelligent systems. Inspired by biologi...

This article establish an efficient electronic commerce logistics operation system to reduce distribution costs and build a logistics network operation model based on around the B2C electronic commerce enterprise logistics network operation system. B2C electronic commerce transactions features in the enterprise network platform. To solve the NP-hard problem this article use hybrid ant colony al...