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...

At present dramatic advances are seen in sensor and multi-sensor fusion techniques, in networking and multi-agent system design, and in capabilities of robotic platforms in terms of robustness and endurance. Applications for autonomous surveillance appear on the horizon, especially wanted for hazardous or dangerous environments. However, whilst for each subsystem measurements of performance exi...

The structure is the basic attribute of everything. The structure of logistics network is composed of logistics nodes and logistics routes, however the logistics cost mainly happens on the function the logistics route undertakes. So logistics routing optimization is the key to reduce logistics cost. As logistics is the hygiene factor of regional economic development, this article studied on log...

At the strategic level, closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) management involves long-term decisions regarding the location and capacity allocation of forward/reverse logistics facilities, the assignment of products to facilities, and the distribution of products between facilities and their end users or suppliers. Both demand and return handling must be taken into account, and the overall problem b...

Based on environmental, legal, social, and economic factors, reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chain issues have attracted attention among both academia and practitioners. This attention is evident by the vast number of publications in scientific journals which have been published in recent years. Hence, a comprehensive literature review of recent and state-of-the-art papers is vital to ...

The Industrial Ecology (IE) is a new interdisciplinary field focused on sustainable development. IE aims to the shifting of industrial processes from open-loop systems where different resources move through a system to become wastes to a closed-loop system where wastes become inputs for new processes. This paper introduces a Green Virtual Enterprise (GVE) model as an emerging sustainable manufa...

The concern about customer satisfaction and transportation cost in the business environment has spurred an interest in designing a flexible logistics network. This paper proposes a multi-delivery path closed-loop supply chain network to find not only the most cost efficient network design but also the best path to deliver the products to customers. To tackle with such an NP-hard problem an Arti...

The article describes the ways of industrial development in era transition from a linear model economy to circular model, as well new trends logistics. It shows interconnection processes production systems, logistics and services, their role ensuring sustainable green growth. is shown that by closing loop product lifecycles, reverse plays an important transitioning economy. presents example pla...

this study aimed to evaluate the success of the outsourcing model for logistics softwares, with emphasis on critical success factors of information systems has been performed. the purpose of this research is applied and methods of data collection is descriptive and correlational research design is second-order factor analysis. because in this study, causal relationships between variables in the...