Apparel firms confront the problem with effective order allocation among factories when conducting global logistics operations. The problem is non-deterministic polynomial-time hard and often complicated to obtain an optimal solution. This research tried to solve, by heuristic method, the problem via applying the learning curve to the capacity planning to improve the decision-making on global l…
Developing countries, such as Taiwan, Singapore and Korea, are transforming to a multi-faceted consumer economy where financial services, medical services, research and development, education, distribution services, international business, technology product development and design, and retail development are fueling economic growth. The logistic and distribution services as a result have become…
We are pleased to present this book that focuses on a key concept of industrial engineering that has received increased attention throughout the years—logistics. Starting from classical location and routing models, the concept of logistics has evolved through different application areas in the last two decades. Especially with the development of the party logistics (PL) concept due to differe…
In today’s highly competitive global environment, companies are forced to compete on price and delivery speed. Global logistics transportation presents some special challenges and issues for business organizations, and these issues differ from those posed by domestic logistics transportation. This study considers road transportation problems between two countries. A mixed-integer programming …
This study attempts to list and rank the necessary skills required of a global logistics professional based on objective evaluations from industry