Logistics Management - Science topic

I am currently working on optimizing our inventory management system and need to calculate the monthly safety stock for various SKUs. I have already generated weekly safety stock values based on historical data and lead times. However, I need to adjust these values for a monthly period considering several factors:

1. SKU Contribution Ratio: This ratio indicates the importance of each SKU. A higher ratio means the SKU is more critical and should have a higher safety stock.

2. CCF Factor: This factor reflects our past ability to fulfill orders based on historical order and invoice data.

3. Monthly Stock Reduction Percentage: This percentage shows how much stock is typically left at the end of each month. If this value is 100% for four consecutive months, it indicates no need to keep that much inventory for the respective SKU. Conversely, if the values are decreasing, it suggests that the safety stock has been used and needs to be adjusted.

Given these factors, I need to determine a safety factor for the month, which will be used to adjust the weekly safety stock values to monthly values.

Digital platforms provide tools for payment processing, logistics management, and customer service, streamlining operations and reducing costs. How has these operations impacted on expansion of international trade.

Production logistics management in a manufacturing company is currently one of the key areas of business management that significantly affects the level of technical and organizational efficiency of business operations. The change in the level of technical and organizational efficiency of business operations also usually has a significant impact and correlates with the issue of business efficiency and affects the financial results generated in the business entity. Among the key segments of logistics in the enterprise are also internal production logistics, on the way of organization of which the efficiency of the operation of production processes and the efficiency of the enterprise also largely depends. In recent years, more and more companies and enterprises have been optimizing production logistics through the implementation of information systems and automation of individual operations in the process. Production logistics is mainly concerned with ensuring the optimal flow of materials and information in the process of producing all types of goods. Production logistics does not deal with the technology of production processes, but only with the organization of the production system together with the storage and transport environment. Production logistics is mainly concerned with the optimization of all operations related to the production process, such as: supplying the plant with raw materials, semi-finished products and components necessary for production; transporting items between successive stages of production; and transferring the finished product to disposal warehouses. Precisely defining optimal production logistics is a lengthy process, requiring analysis and modification of almost every process taking place in a company. One of the key factors in the optimization of production logistics is the reduction of inventory levels and their adjustment to the ongoing production process. This translates directly into a decrease in storage costs. Effective management of production logistics should ensure timely delivery, while maintaining high product quality. Effective production logistics management can be supported by the implementation of new Industry 4.0/5.0 technologies, including Big Data and generative artificial intelligence.

The key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology are described in my article below:

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Our objective is to compare and analyze the service quality provided by the courier services. Our target respondents are 50 customers and 50 delivery riders. We tend to analyze the customer and delivery riders' expectations and perceptions towards the courier service to get insight into, how we do an action plan to improve the service quality provided by the couriers. Our SOP 1. demographic profile 2. 1. What is the difference between the quality of service of the selected courier in terms of the following:

1.1 Reliability;

1.2 Responsiveness;

1.3 Assurance;

1.4 Empathy;

1.5 Tangibility;

My problem here is, do we need to address the common demographic profile of customers and Delivery riders.

The pandemic has accelerated the implementation of ICT information technology into business operations and the use of the Internet to promote and sell product and service offerings. The SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic indirectly accelerated the development of ICT information technology applications in various aspects of business. During the pandemic, lockdowns were introduced on selected, mainly service sectors of the economy. As part of anti-pandemic security instruments, citizens infected with the coronavirus had to stay at home in quarantine for several to several days. As a result, quarantined consumers started ordering and buying products and services more via the Internet. On the other hand, companies under lockdown were able to conduct their business via the Internet. Consequently, many companies and businesses during the pandemic increased their use of the Internet for their business operations. Many businesses have increased the scale of sales of products and services offered to customers via the Internet. Many companies during the pandemic built or developed their online sales platforms. The scale of turnover carried out through the Internet in many companies and enterprises has even increased several times. As a result, the scale of e-commerce increased. The turnover of courier companies increased. E-logistics has developed. The use of ICT information technology and Industry 4.0 in various aspects of business has increased. When placing orders via the Internet and making purchases of products and services, citizens, including consumers and entrepreneurs, increasingly made payments for ordered products, services, semi-finished products, components, raw materials, etc. via the Internet. The development of online payments and settlements has resulted in the acceleration of the development of e-banking, especially online and mobile banking. In enterprises, computerized systems are being developed to support management processes, decision-making processes. The improvement of computerized enterprise management systems is currently being carried out by increasing the scale of use of Internet technologies and Industry 4.0. Examples are investments in computerized management and decision-making process support systems, in which so-called digital twins of economic, business processes and/or specific spheres of conducted production, service, trade, etc. are built. During the pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (Covid-19), the scale of investment by companies and enterprises in the development of computerized decision-making systems, in which the aforementioned digital twins and other innovations of Industry 4.0 technology are used, increased significantly. The development of information processing technologies in the era of the current technological revolution termed Industry 4.0 is determined by the development and growth of applications of ICT information technologies, Internet technologies and advanced data processing. The technological revolution currently taking place, referred to as Industry 4. 0 is determined by the development and implementation into economic processes of the following technologies: analytical and database technologies Big Data Analytics, Data Science, cloud computing, machine learning, personal and industrial Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence, autonomous robots, horizontal and vertical data system integration, multi-criteria simulation models, digital twins, additive manufacturing, Blockchain, smart technologies, cyber security instruments, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and other advanced data processing technologies Data Mining. Thanks to the application of new Industry 4.0 technologies, computerized multi-criteria simulation models known as digital twins are now being created in many companies, enterprises and financial institutions. Building digital twins of entire processes of production, service provision, procurement logistics, manufacturing and distribution in information systems, the company obtains an excellent tool to support the process of managing the organization. Also, business analytics combined with Big Data Analytics technology supports the management process of an enterprise, company, financial institution or other type of business entity. With these solutions, it is also possible to create simulation models of the future development of complex, multi-faceted economic, social, financial, pandemic, natural, climatic, etc. processes. With the help of Big Data Analytics, many companies are already carrying out market research based on the analysis of Internet users' sentiment regarding changes in trends in the evaluation of the quality of product and service offerings, company reputation, logos, corporate branding, etc. The applications of Big Data technology in this area, including computerized market research, analysis of Internet user sentiment, in supporting business management processes, I have described in my publications posted on my profile of this Research Gate portal.

In view of the above, I address the following questions to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

As research on systems for drone delivery of small packages continue, a possible urban asset to successfully leverage is the network of natural and man-made drainage in metro areas.  This inventory would include streams, waterways, canals, gullies, rivers.  Has there been any empirical work been done on utilising these networks for commercial delivery of packages by drones.

Will drones evolve as a parcel delivery model or as objects of intelligent logistics networks meaning that they will deliver to distribution centers not to final users?

What will be the future applications of analytics of large data sets conducted in the computing cloud on computerized Business Intelligence analytical platforms in Big Data database systems in enterprise logistics management?

The analytics conducted on computerized Business Intelligence platforms is one of the key advanced information technology technologies of the fourth technological revolution, known as Industry 4.0. The current technological revolution described as Industry 4.0 is determined by the development of the following technologies of advanced information processing: Big Data database technologies, cloud computing, machine learning, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence and other advanced data mining technologies.

The analytics conducted on computerized Business Intelligence platforms currently supports business management processes, including logistics management.

In my opinion, the use of analytics of large data sets conducted in the computing cloud on computerized Business Intelligence analytical platforms in Big Data database systems in enterprise logistics management, including supply logistics, production logistics, provision of services and distribution of manufactured products and services, is currently growing.

The analytics conducted on large data sets conducted in the cloud computing on Business Intelligence computerized platforms in Big Data database systems makes it particularly easy to identify opportunities and threats to business development, allows for quick generation of analytical reports on selected issues in the economic and financial situation of the business entity. In this way, the generated reports can be helpful in the processes of enterprise logistics management, including supply logistics, production logistics, provision of services and distribution of manufactured products and services.

Do you agree with my opinion on this matter?

In view of the above, I am asking you the following question:

What will be the future applications of analytics of large data sets conducted in the computing cloud on computerized Business Intelligence analytical platforms in Big Data database systems in enterprise logistics management?

Please reply

I invite you to the discussion

The issues of the use of information contained in Big Data database systems for the purposes of conducting Business Intelligence analyzes are described in the publications:

I invite you to discussion and cooperation.

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What is the changing logistics of the distribution of products or services in connection with the development of Internet trade, online payments and settlements, and the provision of information services via the Internet?

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Looking into global context of this pandemic cause thousand of flight being canceled and grounded. In local context, e-hailing is far most frequently used to deliver consumer goods. Some maybe looks like it negatively impact the trade, but how does logistics perhaps to be important factor to elevate new trend of consumer behaviour of purchasing through e-commerce for the next five years?

The current technological revolution, known as Industry 4.0, is determined by the development of the following technologies of advanced information processing: Big Data database technologies, cloud computing, machine learning, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence and other advanced data mining technologies.

In connection with the above, I would like to ask you:

Which information technologies of the current technological revolution Industry 4.0 to the greatest extent support the logistics management process of the enterprise?

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What modern, computerized information technologies in the field of Industry 4.0 are used to implement improvements in production logistics or other logistics areas, such as distribution logistics, supply logistics, transport logistics, etc.?

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What types of restructuring processes are used to implement improvements in production logistics or other logistics areas, such as distribution logistics, supply logistics, transport logistics, etc.?

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Public health authorities claim that no one is safe from COVID-19 until every one is safe. This has translated into a goal to vaccinate everyone who can be vaccinated. Logistically, however, it will take 7 years to vaccinate 2 million adults per day (365 days a year, no weekends or public holidays) across the world in order to vaccinate earth's 5.8 billion population over the age of 15 with a single dose. (Some well resourced countries are struggling to achieve 100k jabs per day). So what's the point?

We are not even discussing the hundreds of thousands of vaccinators needed at work everyday for 365 days a year for 7 years to achieve 2 million jabs per day, or the possibility of new vaccine-resistant virus variants and mutations, or the endemic unknowns that can overtake the best designed plans, as well as Murphy's law etc. It appears that, once the developed world is accounted for, everything may grind to a halt or settle into an opaque, haphazard process without a clear end in sight. It may be that the only solution to vaccinate "everyone" within a year or two years is to inject half the world with a saline placebo?

The scope of emergency and disaster management systems should be redefined.

Public transport and fleet management pandemics must be inclusive.

Logistic management and Intelligent Logistic strategies must be inclusive.

Factors and priorities affecting public transportation should be arranged according to the pandemic.

All legislation required in the above articles should be rearranged according to the pandemic.

I would like to hear your opinions regarding sharpening the orientation of my career by focusing on what matters most just looking at the trends and how the world is changing.

Actually, I did Quantity Surveying/Construction Management (cost engineering) and mastering now in Global Logistics.

I want to combine these two into a long term business focusing on Digital World (I love business).

Thank you

Is the combination of currently developed technologies of Industry 4.0, ie above all advanced information technologies: Business Intelligence + Internet of Things + Learning machines + Internet + Big Data and Internet ICT and their application in the field of production logistics will lead in the next years to the emergence of advanced support analytics production logistics processes, including the development of production e-logistics?

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inventory researchers

For my master thesis I'm building a cost model for organizations, which will calculate the cost for insourcing the transportation and outsourcing.

I need a formula, which can calculate an average distance that needs to be driven by the organization to serve its customers. However, the location from the customers is not available, we only know in which area the customers is.

In advance thank you so much for your time to read my question.

Industry 4.0 has been partially defined by its use of machine-to-machine communication and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to create factories that operate like smart homes: an array of appliances and machines are brought into constant communication in order to create a cohesive, highly visible system. Logistics 4.0 operates under these same principles, but with a different set of component parts. Specifically, it makes use of “smart” containers, vehicles, pallets, and transport systems in order to create a fully networked supply stream that offers supply chain managers, shippers, freight forwarders, and others the necessary visibility to route transport and perform other logistics tasks in an optimal way. The concepts of Logistics 4.0 are becoming popular as logistics management evolves. Industry 4.0 impacts the corporate world through digitization both horizontal and vertical supply chains, products, services, business models, and customer relations.

How much this will affect the Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers?

In the last 25 years, outsourcing has emerged as one of the key globally focused supply chain strategies . After the mid-1990s, the importance of supply chain management (SCM) increased noticeably among practitioners. As a result, the study of supply chain and outsourcing has increased exponentially. In developing markets, with increasing customer demands, outsourcing non-core business

functions has become a commonplace supply chain strategy for many companies and organisations.

DOI 10.1108/BIJ-04-2017-0066

I want to do research on customer knowledge using their spatial data by means of data mining methodology. Regarding my field of study, I wonder whether my topic is relevant to supply chain and logistics management or not. Moreover, in which other areas of supply chain and logistics management is data mining methodology used?

What are the main determinants of the process of integrated risk management of cybercrime and the security of information transferred on the Internet?

In my opinion, the processes of integrated cyber risk management and security of information transferred via the Internet should include the following issues:

- Modern organization management

- Innovations related to information security

- Big Data logistic management in the organization

- IT systems risk management

- Security of information posted on the company's websites

- Good practices in information security management

- Methods for estimating losses as a result of teleinformatic attacks

- Economic aspects of building an IT security team in an organization

- Security of IT infrastructure and Operation Technology

- Information security management standards

- Cloud Computing and information security

- Incident and crisis management

- Business Continuity Planning (BCM)

- Personal data protection

- Technical solutions in the field of information security management

- Cryptography and security mechanisms

- Equipment security and network management

In your opinion, what other issues should be taken into account in building and improving the process of integrated cyber risk management and information security transferred on the Internet?

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Can advanced data processing in the cloud, Big Data database systems and Business Intelligence analytical platforms be helpful in the processes of restructuring and improving logistics of the functioning of production processes?

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I am about to embark on BcomHons logistics management. I am new into research any advise on how to do best research.

Is anyone working on India post or was working in past?

Specifically in field of Suppy chain/Logistics management.

Please Let me know.

Humanitarian logistics is not new but seldom being mentioned in most of the logistics and supply chain operations. But recent incidents such as earth quake and tsunami could be strategically being studied as a SAR operations planning and not necessarily a military or enforcement agencies. Cases such as earthquake in Taiwan, Korea and Japan are the best examples of how important and stressful indeed for the business to move around in the supply chain. But this mostly never being stressed or even mentioned in the higher learning institutes as part of the important logistics and supply chain support elements beside focusing on the manufacturing and global business.

I am looking for some research papers having interesting case studies on application of IoT in Supply Chain Management (SCM) for Retail\logistics in context of Industry 4.0. I found some literature, however apart from [1], most work provided quite simple use cases.

[1] Fiedler, M., & Meissner, S. (2013). IoT in Practice: Examples: IoT in Logistics and Health. In Enabling Things to Talk (pp. 27-36). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

TIA comes with the legal background. Therefore it has been allowed normalize traffic level for all. But there are significant road segments that cannot allow the legal level.

If there any article journals related this please let me know. I like to make a framework for my study. therefore I need the base that other localities use.

Thank you,

Dilshan

I tried getting books for references on this particular subject area but haven't got much. I will be thankful, if anyone could direct me in getting some reading materials on these subjects

We are looking for a methodology or framework that may allow us the characterization of a network composed by more than 20 hospitals in a region of Colombia. Our characterization is related with the logistics infrastructure, processes and performance measurements of the network and its components.

I am currently reviewing literature around dynamic (managerial) capabilities for my dissertation. On the long term, I am intending a case study on a German wholesaler and this question is one of the several questions with potential for my research questions.

Currently researching on the emerging area of data value chain and telematics data in the road freight sector in South Africa. it seems to be an area not yet well explored. I am researching on how this data can be used as a tool in evaluating the impact of the road freight on the environment, society and economy. Further looking into how the data can be used in advancing freight and logistics management systems whilst promoting a sustainable sector

 I read some literature relating port supply chain. Most of them they didn’t illustrate port supply chain clearly. Some of them concluded that port is an extended form of logistics chain, and in some literature, I found it as “Port Service Chain”. But I still cannot get the clear end to end supply chain in a port.

In project-driven company, at the end of project, surplus or leftover material/equipment can be reused in the next project. In order to that in an effective way, company needs a good process of reverse logistics management. Those materials will need to be collected and sorted (4Rs: reuse, return, recycle or remove). 

I have heard a lot about reverse logistics in manufacture but not in project-driven organization. I would like to know more about that.

I'm structuring an applied research on practices of reverse logistics in diversified sectors. I intend to apply a survey to identify current practices and potential improvements in reverse logistics processes. I would like to get information from already conducted questionnaires and/or surveys structures.

I need the questionnaire  for my dissertation, and so far I can't find any published questionnaires.

I want to use quantitative/descriptive analysis on the logistics industry in Greece, in order to propose for the creation of a logistics cluster, since there aren't any in Greece so far.

Any feedback will be much appreciated

Experts in Container Terminal  operations management experts

3pl and 4pl pricing methodology. There is basic two forms of pricing 3pl and 4pl services. Cost plus and outcome/result oriented. 

I am looking for a cook-book, so we can implement the process and the software accordingly.

thanks

Daniel

I need to identify which resources (goods, materials, instruments, persons) can become a physical constraint or bottleneck in the logistic system of an enterprise / Necesito identificar qué recursos (activos, materiales, instrumentos, personas) pueden convertirse en una restricción física o cuello de botella en el sistema logístico de una empresa.

Any Venn diagram 

in the uk we now have lots of new psychological therapy teams. most still operate in localities separate to GPs, often to do with logistics and managing effective through put but it still creates a division

Hi,

I am searching for recommendation for the best 3pl and 4pl ERP, WMS, TMS, etc. software in the market. 

I am specially interested if there is good open-source or fully cloud version for this type of software. 

Sincerely,

Daniel

Can anybody tell me which logistics enterprises are engaged in 3D printing business? Thanks.

Huge benefits have been reaped from collaboration between buyers, suppliers and logistics service providers. The Kraljic matrix, the Kamann Cube and the Bensaou model provide means to assess the collaboration value of a given supply chain partner. It has been argued that 3PLs suffer a significant amount of "squeezing" from their customers - a practice associated with transactional purchasing of commodities rather than strategic partnerships. 

To what extent is this statement true? If it is true, what will be the effect on collaborative potential in the 3PL industry; and what will be the effect on value creation and total cost to the supply chain?

Hi All. Recently I want to write a paper about an emerging seaport. And a definition of emerging port should be defined in this paper. However, it is difficult for me to do this that I cannot find any similar definition about port (neither large port or small and middle size port).

Therefore, I wonder if any perpson know how to define "large port", "emerging port" and "small and middle size port"? And is there any standard to divide ports by their throughputs, such as a port can be regard as a large port if its throughput is higher than 100 million TEUs by XXX(person, research, or standard)?

I'm waiting for your help.

Thanks very much! And best regard!!

Dear Friends,

We are studying a hazmat transportation problem with multi-modal (rail+road). Now we need to have some instances (real or generated) for using in our model to solve the problem based them. 

Any information you can provide me would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Currently he is working on 02 considered medium mining companies.

Consider the following:

- More than 80% of the materials belonging to the maintenance area.

- The criteria considered by Logistics is more focused on the production area.

I hope to survey companies of all sizes in Mexico (domestic or foreign owned) for their usage of third party logistics providers.  My survey will only be sent to those firms that outsource one or more of their logistics functions to third party logistics providers. 

One of my friends is completing his dissertation on third party logistics and has run into a barrier of finding a validated survey. Any suggestions?

It does not make sense to create dummy var for a var like month, where value of dec (12) can give wrong implication and distorted distribution; but for var like risk ( low, med, high, very high), shall we create dummy var or numeric var with values 0,1,2,3?I want to use these vars for a logistic model.

I mean the binomial method used for components' forecast.

It's defined as the number of employments, but I haven't understood if it comprehends also the amount of pieces actually employed.

That is, suppose we have the mechanical piece XY build both on the arm and on the panel of an industrial machine in quantity of 2 on the arm and 3 on the panel.

Now, that "n" is 2 (so the count of different applications) or 5 (so the amount of single pieces used)?

Thank you

New Silk Road: China-Russia-Latvia The new East - West Logistics.

After the new strategic collaborations between China and Russia,

To what extent do you think the new Silk Road (China-Russia-Latvia) will affect the global logistics industry? especially the Middle East region and its shipping lines?

I am working for an international humanitarian organization in Geneva. We are currently rewriting our field manual and very keen to benchmark against and learn from commercial organizations involved in any aspects of international transportation, distribution, warehouse management, forecasting, inventory control, quality assurance, purchasing, performance management, risk management etc. Currently implementing an ERP.

I need an article about a single facility problem or multiple facility problem in rectilinear distance or euclidean distance, or an article about a tree network problem or cyclic problem ( 1 median problem or 1 center problem or n center problem ).

Logistics service users (LSUs) prefer to deal with one logistics service provider (LSP). Providing a wide-range of logistics service affect the quality of these services and the LSP's ability to add value.

What do you prefer? A specilaised LSP with a limited range of high quality logistics services, or a one-stop shop LSP? Why? What are the main logistics services that you ask for?

So many have been talking about the role of logistics and supply chain management but it seldom crossing the roles of maritime supply chain. Most universities who have such programs only stress the important of logistics role in land, sea, air, logistics providers and pipeline but less on maritime supply chain. Should I assume that its a new study but has long bee neglected about its very important roles in logistics activities?

As a former practitioner of Logistics Management and Warehousing, I felt that this argument and logic was difficult to understand from the practitioner perspective. I saw a lot of failures on this and the claim that SCM is the best practice could only be shown in numbers and system but not in practice.

Firms use different dimensions and techniques to evaluate and select their LSPs. To what extent are tangible and intangible logistics resources and capabilities a good choice for this mission, and to what extent these resources and capabilities are interrelated (mutually interdependent)?