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questioning the structure of their entire logistics chain. This is due to the emergence of new actors (i.e., large retailers); the … signals that have caused companies to question their logistics strategies as shown in the ISLI survey. …
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Multi-echelon distribution systems are quite common in supply-chain and logistic systems. They are used by public administrations in their transportation and traffic planning strategies as well as by companies to model their distribution systems. Unfortunately, the literature on com- binatorial...
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This paper analyzes last mile logistics for fresh food products and the food deliveries schemes to urban food outlets …
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various urban logistics measures, which directly and indirectly affect the urban food supply system. This paper presents an … analyses the city logistics project for food transport implemented in Parma, Italy, in order to identify external costs … indicators that help policymakers in evaluating the environmental sustainability of different logistics measures. According to …
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City logistics is a field that studies the best solutions for urban freight distribution with high environmental … organizational schemas in the existing distribution enterprises' organization. This paper sets out to show how city logistics … approaches can meet the goals of Sustainable Development nowadays. In order to define the notion of sustainable city logistics …
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Urban logistics is a field that studies the best solutions for urban freight distribution with high environmental … organizational schemas in the existing distribution enterprises' organization. This paper sets out to show that urban logistics … contribution to the evaluation and measurement of city urban logistics using a success story that has been developed from the …
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Companies could gain competitive advantage through the supply chain network. Especially facility location represent possible source of cost and service performance improvement. The goal of this article is to explore and expose what could be the facility key performance indicators. A literature...
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In this paper we consider several facility location problems with applications to cost and social welfare optimization, when the area map is encoded as a binary (0,1) mxn matrix. We present algorithmic solutions for all the problems. Some cases are too particular to be used in practical...
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Transboundary pollution is a particularly serious problem as it leads people located at regional borders to disproportionately suffer from pollution. In China, where the environmental policy is decentralized and where environmental conflicts between provinces have occurred several times,...
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Industry cluster and supply chain are in focus of every countries which rely on knowledge-based economy. Both focus on improving the competitiveness of firm in the industry in the different aspect. This paper tries to illustrate how the industry cluster can increase the supply chain performance....
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