论煤炭企业物流管理体系建设

经济结构转轨时期,物流管理在煤炭企业的运营中起着承前启后的作用。它必然是煤炭企业经济外向型转化的一个标志。但是不容怀疑的是:注入了新元素的现代化的煤炭企业物流管理,需要一个科学的体系来维护,而这个体系本身就是一个新的利润源。在避免煤炭的生产、供应、转换、存储、运输、仓储等条件的制约后,如何转化成一个快速的,稳定的资源体系,使其能够形成稳定的利润增长和煤炭运销工作,对外供应的一个新局面,也就成了新时期煤炭物流管理的工作重点,恰恰也正是我们需要研究的重点。     

论成套电器企业的物流信息流与资金流管理

物流信息在现代企业经营战略中占有越来越重要的地位。掌握物流信息的特点和分类的前提是了解有关信息的内容和功能，以便正确的运用信息进行正确的决策预测。物流管理可以看作是信息流、物流、资金流的综合，是供应链的核心与关键。信息流管理便是本着物流信息系统构建原则，跨越部门与企业的界限将相关的数据集成起来。资金流是产品或物料从供给方向需求方转移时，与其等价的货币或其他等价物的交换或所有权的转移运动。结合成套电器企业的信息集成系统的构建，成功将物流系统与原有系统进行了数据整合，为提升企业的综合竞争能力，降低物流成本，提高经济效益奠定了良好基础。     

电子商务与第三方物流

物流是实现电子商务的重要环节和基本保证，第三方物流是目前物流发展的重要形式。本文首先对在电子商务环境下发展物流的必要性进行了分析，指出没有现代化的物流就没有电子商务的发展，以及发展第三方物流的重要性。然后，通过对第三方物流在我国发展现状的分析，指出我国发展第三方物流存在的一些制约因素，最后提出了发展第三方物流的对策。     

物流金融实务研究

物流金融是一个新的概念,也是国内第三方物流供应商新的赢利增长点.本文从实务的角度研究物流金融的业务流程、如何规避操作过程中的风险以及目前国内外第三方物流供应商提供的物流金融服务,并着重介绍了物流金融的四种操作模式:垫付货款、代收货款、仓单质押和保兑仓.     

Container drayage problem with flexible orders and its near real-time solution strategies

This article studies a container drayage problem with flexible orders defined by using requiring and releasing attributes as a unified formulation of various order types. A determined-activities-on-vertex (DAOV) graph introduces a temporary vertex set to formulate different truck statuses. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model based on the DAOV graph. Four strategies including a window partition based (WPB) strategy are presented and evaluated extensively to solve the problem. Results indicate that the WPB method could solve the problem effectively and efficiently. Furthermore, this method is robust considering the operating time biases compared to other algorithms.     

Optimal capacity and operation design of a robot logistics system for the hotel industry

This study introduces an optimal capacity and operation design of a robot logistics system that can reduce human workload in the hotel industry. In hotels, there are several duties that can be replaced by robots such as accompanying guests to the certain areas, delivering specific items to the guest rooms, and transporting some items that guests want to be removed from the guest rooms. To apply the robot logistics system in the hotel industry, the capacity and operation design should be prepared adequately. For that, a mathematical model-based optimization technique is used to decide the number of robots with the concept of minimizing total investment cost and to derive the optimal job assigning with the purpose of maximizing total covered jobs. In addition, a numerical example is performed to validate the proposed mathematical model and the sensitivity tests are examined to reflect the random features.     

Utilizing urban form characteristics in urban logistics analysis: a case study in Lisbon,Portugal

Within the realm of urban logistics, Macário (2013) developed a hypothesis, denominated the Logistics Profile (LP) concept that suggests homogeneous groups of urban zones with respect to three dimensions, which could be used to analyze freight movement policy: (1) the social and built environment; (2) characteristics of the goods/products being moved; (3) characteristics of the deliveries at the receiver establishment. The concept was expected to ease the transferability of best practices in city logistics, by analyzing similarities and differences between zones. This research uses a quantitative methodology to apply the LP concept, and assess its potential, using the city of Lisbon as a case study. The analysis is focused on: (a) the extrapolation of freight trip generation per establishment and delivery characteristics from a sample of commercial establishments to the population within the case study, (b) proposing a methodology to test the LPs, (c) testing the existence of proposed LPs. Freight trips have been extrapolated using a Multiple Classification Analysis (MCA) model. Freight delivery characteristics were attributed to establishments from a sample-based probability distribution. LPs were tested using a two-step cluster analysis. Some LPs have been matched with clusters of case-study zones, subject to case study particularities. Profile overlap was not an issue and occurrences were expected. The testing showed that Logistic Profiles have the potential for being used as a departure point for urban freight planning and policy analysis.     

Benefits of in-vehicle consolidation in less than truckload freight transportation operations

Researchers and public agencies have proposed consolidation policies as an alternative to increase truck payload utilization and mitigate externalities produced by freight transportation. Understanding and enhancing the economic mechanisms that lead to freight consolidation can ease the implementation of these strategies, increase profits for shippers and carriers, and reduce freight-related negative externalities. An important mechanism that has recently been studied for cost reduction in the freight industry is combinatorial auctions. In these auctions, a shipper invites a set of carriers to submit bids for freight lane contracts. Carriers can bid for individual lanes or bundles of them according to their operational characteristics. These bids are constructed considering direct shipments (Truckload operations) and several biding advisory models have been proposed for this purpose. However, there are economies of scale that can be achieved if shipments are consolidated inside vehicles, which have not been explored in the construction of competitive bids. This paper investigates such benefits and provides insights on the competitiveness and challenges associated to the development of consolidated bids (suitable for Less-Than-Truckload operations). Consolidated bids are constructed using a multi-commodity one-to-one pickup-and-delivery vehicle routing problem that is solved using a branch-and-price algorithm. The numerical experiment shows that non-consolidated bids are dominated by consolidated bids, which implies that this type of operation can increase the likelihood of a carrier to win auctioned lanes, while increasing its profits margins over truckload companies (non-consolidated bids), and keeping the reported benefits that combinatorial auctions represent for shippers.     

电子商务环境下中小企业物流运作存在的问题与对策

中小企业在我国国民经济中占有重要的地位,而电子商务作为一种新的经济运作方式是中小企业发展的必由之路.物流服务于商流,是实现“以顾客为中心“理念的根本保证,没有现代化的物流,就无法实现真正的电子商务.本文在详细分析了电子商务环境下中小企业物流运作存在的问题基础上,提出了中小企业物流发展的对策.     

浅谈如何合理改造邵阳烟草物流应用平台

本文从烟草商业企业经营战略目标的角度出发,结合湖南省烟草公司邵阳市公司卷烟物流的现状,针对邵阳市公司卷烟物流应用平台改造项目进行了必要性和可行性分析,阐述了卷烟物流应用平台规划的相关理念和原则,为邵阳烟草搭建经济、实用的卷烟物流应用平台,提供了重要的参考思路。