The floricultural sector is facing market developments that have forced a redesign of the European logistics network. Via workshops and interviews with key stakeholders the main developments and industry needs are identified. These are then summarised in three central themes that require further investigation, i.e. decision problems (e.g. network design and control), context factors (e.g. deman...

In this paper, we address a two-echelon humanitarian logistics network design problem involving multiple central warehouses (CWs) and local distribution centers (LDCs) and develop a novel two-stage scenariobased possibilistic-stochastic programming (SBPSP) approach. The research is motivated by the urgent need for designing a relief network in Tehran in preparation for potential earthquakes to ...

Starting from the basic pillars of the supportability analysis this paper queries its characteristics in LCI (Life Cycle Integration) environment. The research methodology contents a review of modern logistics engineering literature with the objective to collect and synthesize the knowledge relating to standards of supportability design in e-logistics environment. The results show that LCI fram...

In this paper we present the development of an integrated process analysis toolkit for humanitarian logistics. The toolkit integrates a conceptual and a technological component. Our approach follows a case study-based modeling and design approach. The developed concept was evaluated in two humanitarian organizations. Based on these results we extended and integrated the tool-supported process a...

Recently, urbanization has been expanded rapidly in the world and a number of metropolitan areas have been appeared with a population of more than 10 million people. Because of dense population in metropolitan and consequently increasing the delivery of goods and services, there has been a lot of problems including traffic congestion, air pollution, accidents and high energy consumption. This m...

This article describes an intelligent system called LogNet that provides advice on how to design business logistics networks. It implements its capabilities by utilizing model-based reasoning techniques. In addition, it utilizes heuristic-based searching to guide an end-user toward more effective network designs. The network design problem studied in this article addresses the warehouse facilit...

We consider the class of integrated network design and scheduling (INDS) problems that focus on selecting and scheduling operations that will change the characteristics of a network, while being specifically concerned with the performance of the network over time. Motivating applications of INDS problems include infrastructure restoration after an extreme event and building humanitarian logisti...

Recently much research has focused on both the supply chain and reverse logistics network design problem. The rapid progress in computer and network technology and the increasingly fierce competition in recent times have compelled global company to consider these two networks in integrated view for efficient decision-making throughout the supply chain. The integrated problem, however, resembles...