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This article exposes the prospects of using structured analysis and design technique (SADT), its advantages and capacities for the study of processes in a freight forwarding company to ...improve the quality system for consigner service provision. We review the modeling of high-capacity container (HCC) transportation by a transport and logistics company using the SADT method and IDEFO notation, as well as the efficiency of using the SADT methodology to describe and research freight forwarding processes that can be confirmed by the list of its key application areas.
•An extensive analysis of factors affecting fuel consumption is provided.•Freight transportation vehicle emission models are reviewed.•Routing problems with fuel consumption components are ...investigated.•A systematic review of 58 publications on green logistics is carried out.
Road freight transportation is a major contributor to carbon dioxide equivalent emissions. Reducing these emissions in transportation route planning requires an understanding of vehicle emission models and their inclusion into the existing optimization methods. This paper provides a review of recent research on green road freight transportation.
The business value of information technology (IT) has been one of the top concerns of both practitioners and scholars for decades. Numerous studies have documented the positive effects of IT ...capability on organizational performance but our knowledge of the processes through which such gains are achieved remains limited due to a lack of focus on the business environment. Such a linkage therefore remains the subject of debate in the information systems literature. In this study, we fill this gap by investigating the mediating role of business process agility and the moderating roles of environmental factors. On the basis of matched survey data obtained from 214 IT and business executives from manufacturing firms in China, our analyses show that even though firm-wide IT capability presents the characteristics of rarity, appropriability, non-reproducibility, and non-substitutability, its impact on organizational performance is fully mediated by business process agility. Our results also show that the impact of the environment is multifaceted and nuanced. In particular, environmental hostility weakens the effect of IT capability on business process agility, while environmental complexity strengthens it. The theoretical and practical implications of this study, and its limitations, are also discussed.
•LSPs present misalignment problems between the use of green practices and enabling technologies.•LSPs are more inclined towards single-firm practices instead of supply chain practices.•LSPs are more ...likely to adopt supply chain technologies instead of single-firm technologies.•LSPs have e technological potential to play a critical role in greening the supply chain.•Different national policies should support the sustainable development of firms and supply chains.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was defined by United Nations Member States to provide a list of sustainable development goals (SDGs) aimed to achieve a more sustainable future. Greenhouse gas and CO2 emissions are now at their highest levels in history, and freight transport and logistics service industry has been recognized as one of the main contributors to environmental degradation. Nowadays, the influence of enabling technologies and green practices on business activities is growing and offers interesting opportunities to large firms and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operating in freight transport and logistics service industry. More in details, affordable and scalable practices and solutions are now available to support companies to adopt measures able to reduce emissions and promote climate action goals. On the other hand, specific policies supporting the adoption of innovative practices and technologies are playing a pivotal role in assisting companies and supply chains to achieve SDGs. In this context, this paper analyses the degree of adoption of emerging green practices and enabling technologies in European logistics service providers (LSPs). The results of the cross-country analysis highlight a variety of behaviours of LSPs operating in the different countries in terms of managerial and technological strategies.
This paper presents a literature review on Third-Party Logistics (3PL) selection decision in terms of criteria and methods. Based on the analysis of 67 articles published within 1994–2013 period, ...this review reveals that 3PL selection is empirical in nature and is related to a region/country, industrial sector, and logistics activities outsourced. In terms of 3PL selection criteria, 11 key criteria are identified; each one is defined by a set of attributes. Cost is the most widely adopted criterion, followed by relationship, services, and quality. In terms of methods for 3PL evaluation, they can be categorized in 5 groups, namely: MCDM techniques, statistical approaches, artificial intelligence, mathematical programming, and hybrid methods.
•67 papers on 3PL selection are analyzed in terms of criteria and methods.•Majority of the studies is empirical but comparison between regions are scarce.•11 main groups of criteria are identified.•Cost is the most widely used attribute, followed by relationship, services, and quality.•Five categories of methods are identified but their use remains low.
The Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Scheduled Lines (PDPTW-SL) concerns scheduling a set of vehicles to serve freight requests such that a part of the journey can be carried out on ...a scheduled public transportation line. Due to the complexity of the problem, which is NP-hard, we propose an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS) heuristic algorithm to solve the PDPTW-SL. Complex aspects such as fixed lines׳ schedules, synchronization and time-windows constraints are efficiently considered in the proposed algorithm. Results of extensive computational experiments show that the ALNS is highly effective in finding good-quality solutions on the generated PDPTW-SL instances with up to 100 freight requests that reasonably represent real life situations.
•Integration of pickup and delivery problem with public transportation is analyzed.•Public transportation is used as a part of the small-size freight's journey.•An adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic is proposed to solve the problem.•Considerable cost savings can be achieved from the integrated transport networks.
In this article the author's interpretation of the concept of transport space is offered, its brief characteristic is given. The basic features of the transport space and evidence of the existence of ...its variable hierarchy that allows observe the transport space at different levels of specificity, are specified. It is shown that freight forwarding can be considered as one of the subspaces of the transport space. It is proved that one of the main requirements for the development of this component should be the requirement to implement the maximum possible information conductivity of all its elements and links, and, therefore, the maximum interest of all its participants. An important role in the study of the transport process has been formulated. The described technique displays all the iterative components of the transport aspect.
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