Logistics has long been recognized as the main effective tool for generating competitive advantages in trading enterprises, and therefore there is an acute problem in finding strategic guidelines for improving logistics activities through the lens of organizational and economic support of logistic activity of a trading enterprise. The article compares the main reference models for the analysis ...

The markets globalization is one of the factors creating conditions for the development of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship does not have one generally accepted definition. Most often, entrepreneurship is perceived as the ability to increase the number of enterprises. Entrepreneurship can be understood as the potential to identify and use development opportunities regardless of own resources....

a r t i c l e i n f o In the last decade, the growing economy in Taiwan has brought about rapid growth in the logistics demands of enterprises. An important goal in the field of third party logistics (3PLs) is to improve the performance of logistics activities to enhance operation efficiency and enterprise competency. However, the employee performance must be determined in order to improve the ...

The use of third-party logistics (3PL) providers is regarded as new strategy in logistics management. The relationships by considering 3PL are sometimes more complicated than any classical logistics supplier relationships. These relationships have taken into account as a well-known way to highlight organizations' flexibilities to regard rapidly uncertain market conditions, follow core competenc...

Logistics performance management has received more attention by government and organizations in recent years as it becomes the critical success factor of the supply chain. The study of logistics performance management in this paper aims to analyze dimensions and relevant factors of logistics information system (LIS) usage that affects logistics performance management under uncertainty. A survey...

To save the cost for customers and distribution center is the key issue to survive for distribution centers. The low service efficiency will certainly lead to increased distribution cost. It is a universal concern problem for distribution industry even for logistics industry to improve distribution service efficiency. On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of customer needs and the chara...

A survey of 1,200 manufacturing firms in Taiwan was undertaken in order to examine the relationships among logistics measurement capabilities (including general measurement and benchmarking), logistics performance, and financial performance. Results showed that general measurement capability (which refers to functional measurement, total cost analysis, and customer-oriented measures) is the mos...

the use of third-party logistics (3pl) providers is regarded as new strategy in logistics management. the relationships by considering 3pl are sometimes more complicated than any classical logistics supplier relationships. these relationships have taken into account as a well-known way to highlight organizations' flexibilities to regard rapidly uncertain market conditions, follow core competenc...

Reverse logistics is an important process that is often misunderstood. Many organizations do not understand what processes and procedures to follow and how to manage reverse logistics efficiently. Though studies have shown the positive impacts of adoption of various reverse logistics practices, the researcher found no research works that specifically shown how adoption of reverse logistics prac...