In today’s logistics market, small and mediumsized logistics companies are exposed to increasing cooperation pressure to use rationalization potentials, win new groups of customers and assert themselves in the competition with big logistics companies yielding a distinct market power. In the past, numerous SME-size logistics companies have joined to form regional logistics associations in order ...

The Federal Reserve System of the United States is making changes to its cash recirculation policy to reduce depository institutions’ (banks’) overuse of its cash processing services. These changes will affect operating policies and costs at many institutions having large cash businesses and, in turn, impact cash transportation and logistics providers. This study provides the framework to study...

The acceleration of the updating and iteration electronic products leads to increasing types quantity waste products, which poses a great threat environmental protection social development. problem reverse logistics has gradually become focus attention. This paper constructed expected value model based on open loop supply chain, made implementation plan through empirical analysis electrical app...

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...

This paper aims to build integrated forward and reverse logistics model, and to optimize it with closed loop supply chain (CLSC). After that, we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed model with the numerical examples, and simulate it with a bottles distilling/sale company in Korea. This paper designs the method of calculation for a solution using optimization algorithms with the priority-b...

Background Prior to 1993, Nepal had a vertical health logistics system. Logistics was not a government priority. No logistics curricula had been developed, no staff had been trained, and no logistics information systems existed at any level. After the establishment of the Logistics Management Division in 1993, the lack of trained manpower in logistics was realized. With support of USAID funded ...

Emergency logistics system is mainly composed of emergency command center, emergency logistics center, and emergency logistics information system. Among them, emergency logistics information system is a very important part of the emergency logistics throughout the whole emergency logistics rescue process, which is consisted of early-warning, reserve and distribution, monitoring, decision-making...