Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383952
Chunxun Xie, Cheng Li, Hongguang Yao, Zhong Wu
Theories of ecosystem provides the new view for the research on the logistic market and TPL enterprise. Through analyzing the basic theories of ecosystem to analyze the competitive cooperative relations of the integrating logistic market, regional logistic market and specialized logistic market and the best distribution of the TPL business enterprise in the logistic market. Take the theories of ecosystem as the foundation to study the evolvement of TPL business enterprise's competition and cooperation, the paper puts forward the ecosystem structure model of TPL competition and cooperative relation management.
{"title":"Research on Model of the Logistics Cooperative Relation Based on Theories of Ecosystem","authors":"Chunxun Xie, Cheng Li, Hongguang Yao, Zhong Wu","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383952","url":null,"abstract":"Theories of ecosystem provides the new view for the research on the logistic market and TPL enterprise. Through analyzing the basic theories of ecosystem to analyze the competitive cooperative relations of the integrating logistic market, regional logistic market and specialized logistic market and the best distribution of the TPL business enterprise in the logistic market. Take the theories of ecosystem as the foundation to study the evolvement of TPL business enterprise's competition and cooperation, the paper puts forward the ecosystem structure model of TPL competition and cooperative relation management.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127622520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383924
Chen Zhi-song, Wang Hui-min, Chen Jun-fei
This paper studies three patterns of JMI (Jointly Managed Inventory), and builds contract relevant and solves the corresponding optimal cost-sharing coefficient, and achieves the revenue optimization of each party of supply chain and whole supply chain. The result of the study suggests that when other variables are constant, under the pattern of jointly managed inventory in supplier, the optimal sharing coefficient of cost increases with the wholesale price increasing and decreases with the variable of short cost of inventory minus transport cost increasing; under the pattern of jointly managed inventory in retailer, the optimal sharing coefficient of cost decreases with the wholesale price increasing and increases with the variable the variable of short cost of inventory minus transport cost increasing; under the pattern of jointly managed inventory in the third party, the optimal sharing coefficient of cost of third party increases with the expense of inventory management that third party charge the supplier per unit product increasing and the expense of inventory management that third party charge the retailer per unit product increasing. which has a positive meaning to enriching and developing the theory of JMI and guiding the practice of JMI.
{"title":"Research on the Contract in Jointly Managed Inventory","authors":"Chen Zhi-song, Wang Hui-min, Chen Jun-fei","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383924","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies three patterns of JMI (Jointly Managed Inventory), and builds contract relevant and solves the corresponding optimal cost-sharing coefficient, and achieves the revenue optimization of each party of supply chain and whole supply chain. The result of the study suggests that when other variables are constant, under the pattern of jointly managed inventory in supplier, the optimal sharing coefficient of cost increases with the wholesale price increasing and decreases with the variable of short cost of inventory minus transport cost increasing; under the pattern of jointly managed inventory in retailer, the optimal sharing coefficient of cost decreases with the wholesale price increasing and increases with the variable the variable of short cost of inventory minus transport cost increasing; under the pattern of jointly managed inventory in the third party, the optimal sharing coefficient of cost of third party increases with the expense of inventory management that third party charge the supplier per unit product increasing and the expense of inventory management that third party charge the retailer per unit product increasing. which has a positive meaning to enriching and developing the theory of JMI and guiding the practice of JMI.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131334302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383885
Zejun Liu, Rende Feng
In modern knowledge economies, knowledge alliance (KA) on the purpose of knowledge study and innovation necessarily build up an efficient, reliable information resources system to utilize information resources more availably. This article starts from the analysis of the characteristics of enterprise information resources (EIR) based on the knowledge alliance, putting forward the demands of the constitution of its enterprise information resources system (EIRS) and conduct the functional design and the system logical design.
{"title":"Research on the Constitution of Enterprise Information Resources System Based on Knowledge Alliance","authors":"Zejun Liu, Rende Feng","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383885","url":null,"abstract":"In modern knowledge economies, knowledge alliance (KA) on the purpose of knowledge study and innovation necessarily build up an efficient, reliable information resources system to utilize information resources more availably. This article starts from the analysis of the characteristics of enterprise information resources (EIR) based on the knowledge alliance, putting forward the demands of the constitution of its enterprise information resources system (EIRS) and conduct the functional design and the system logical design.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126293043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383929
Chenlan Wang, T. Fan
Recently outsourcing has emerged as a major issue in supply chain with remanufacturing. In this paper, we focus on the outsourcing decision-making strategy of collecting used-product for remanufacturing. Based on the review of large volume of literature, we develop three models for different collecting channel structurs (namely collected by the manufacturer, by the retailer, and by the third-party respectively). Moreover, this paper presents a quantitative methodology for manufacturer to make outsourcing decision, which aims at maximizing the manufacturer's profit. Finally a set of numerical examples are also presented to illustrate the sensitivity of the major variables ofthe models.
{"title":"Outsourcing Decision-making Strategy for Collecting Used-products in Reverse Logistics","authors":"Chenlan Wang, T. Fan","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383929","url":null,"abstract":"Recently outsourcing has emerged as a major issue in supply chain with remanufacturing. In this paper, we focus on the outsourcing decision-making strategy of collecting used-product for remanufacturing. Based on the review of large volume of literature, we develop three models for different collecting channel structurs (namely collected by the manufacturer, by the retailer, and by the third-party respectively). Moreover, this paper presents a quantitative methodology for manufacturer to make outsourcing decision, which aims at maximizing the manufacturer's profit. Finally a set of numerical examples are also presented to illustrate the sensitivity of the major variables ofthe models.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114264520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The dominant models of supply chain management have a strong product orientation, with service supply chain models only starting to appear. The technologies used in existing supply chains generally aim at improving production and logistical operations by increasing their efficiencies and by linking and integrating collaboration between individual supply chain partners. This paper focuses on service supply chains and argues that despite their increasing importance, current information and communication technologies (ICTs) fail to fully support the specific needs of service co-production. The paper reviews current technology use from a service perspective and concludes that even the most advanced technologies that have huge potential to support services (such as RFID) remain product-oriented. It argues that such technologies should be deployed in ways that can support the service logic and identifies the danger that unreflected ICT use may pose for the pragmatic utility of ICT use in service-supply
{"title":"The Service Paradox: Supporting Service Supply Chains with Product-oriented ICT","authors":"Mairead Brady, Martin R. Fellenz","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.995127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.995127","url":null,"abstract":"The dominant models of supply chain management have a strong product orientation, with service supply chain models only starting to appear. The technologies used in existing supply chains generally aim at improving production and logistical operations by increasing their efficiencies and by linking and integrating collaboration between individual supply chain partners. This paper focuses on service supply chains and argues that despite their increasing importance, current information and communication technologies (ICTs) fail to fully support the specific needs of service co-production. The paper reviews current technology use from a service perspective and concludes that even the most advanced technologies that have huge potential to support services (such as RFID) remain product-oriented. It argues that such technologies should be deployed in ways that can support the service logic and identifies the danger that unreflected ICT use may pose for the pragmatic utility of ICT use in service-supply","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115893981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383899
R. Cordone, Michele Milesi, Matteo Salani
In this work we devise and implement a decision support system for a service company, managing the personnel shifts in a hospital for aged persons. In particular, we formulate a mathematical model that embeds labour regulations, trade union agreements and operational customs in terms of hard and soft constraints. Soft constraints and costs are treated in a multi-objective fashion by a preference modeling module exploiting the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Finally, we present a tabu-search algorithm used to initialize an open source linear programming solver and we compare the results obtained by the optimization algorithm with the manual planning.
{"title":"A decision support tool to plan shifts in a home for the aged","authors":"R. Cordone, Michele Milesi, Matteo Salani","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383899","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we devise and implement a decision support system for a service company, managing the personnel shifts in a hospital for aged persons. In particular, we formulate a mathematical model that embeds labour regulations, trade union agreements and operational customs in terms of hard and soft constraints. Soft constraints and costs are treated in a multi-objective fashion by a preference modeling module exploiting the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Finally, we present a tabu-search algorithm used to initialize an open source linear programming solver and we compare the results obtained by the optimization algorithm with the manual planning.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122740311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383881
Rende Feng, Zejun Liu, Yiping Zhang
Enterprise technique innovation based on knowledge alliance is establishing and coordinating a dynamic, multi-functional, multi-sectional and multi-regional cooperative process by interiorizing exterior technical resources. It is also a complicated social economic process, which necessarily involves many elements such as enterprises' cultures, techniques, environments, information flow, social service and regional cooperation. This paper analyzes multi-factors of enterprise technique innovation (ETI) based on knowledge alliance and constructs the "airplane" model of multi-factor integration. It also points out the methods and steps of vaguely comprehensive evaluation of enterprise technique innovative abilities.
{"title":"Research on the Multi-factor Integrated Model of Enterprise Technique Innovation Based on Knowledge Alliance","authors":"Rende Feng, Zejun Liu, Yiping Zhang","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383881","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprise technique innovation based on knowledge alliance is establishing and coordinating a dynamic, multi-functional, multi-sectional and multi-regional cooperative process by interiorizing exterior technical resources. It is also a complicated social economic process, which necessarily involves many elements such as enterprises' cultures, techniques, environments, information flow, social service and regional cooperation. This paper analyzes multi-factors of enterprise technique innovation (ETI) based on knowledge alliance and constructs the \"airplane\" model of multi-factor integration. It also points out the methods and steps of vaguely comprehensive evaluation of enterprise technique innovative abilities.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124123215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383865
Daniele Gilberti, G. Righini
We introduce the problem of assigning alert duties to emergency service providers, namely civil protection teams and heart surgery wards in order to evenly distribute the workload among all providers and to optimize the level of service, measured by the intervention time. We compare two different exact optimization methods to solve this kind of problems, one based on general purpose integer linear programming solvers and the other based on Lagrangean relaxation and branch-and-bound. We also present a GRASP heuristic and we show how it can be used in combination with the general-purpose solver. Experimental results are presented on instances adapted from the O.R. Library and on instances taken from real applications.
{"title":"Optimization of Duties Assignment in Emergency Services","authors":"Daniele Gilberti, G. Righini","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383865","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce the problem of assigning alert duties to emergency service providers, namely civil protection teams and heart surgery wards in order to evenly distribute the workload among all providers and to optimize the level of service, measured by the intervention time. We compare two different exact optimization methods to solve this kind of problems, one based on general purpose integer linear programming solvers and the other based on Lagrangean relaxation and branch-and-bound. We also present a GRASP heuristic and we show how it can be used in combination with the general-purpose solver. Experimental results are presented on instances adapted from the O.R. Library and on instances taken from real applications.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"02 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129895144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383870
T. Friesz, C. Kwon, M. Rigdon
In this paper we are concerned with a class of mathematical problems that arise when modeling dynamic competition among conflicting agents may reach a dynamic equilibrium. We call this class of problems differential variational inequalities. We present a numerical method to solve differential variational inequalities, so-called the fixed point algorithm very briefly. We are further interested in the application of models belonging to this class of problems to the study of problems appearing in service management. As an example, we introduce a dynamic pricing model in service providers' competition.
{"title":"A Model of Competition in Service Management","authors":"T. Friesz, C. Kwon, M. Rigdon","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383870","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we are concerned with a class of mathematical problems that arise when modeling dynamic competition among conflicting agents may reach a dynamic equilibrium. We call this class of problems differential variational inequalities. We present a numerical method to solve differential variational inequalities, so-called the fixed point algorithm very briefly. We are further interested in the application of models belonging to this class of problems to the study of problems appearing in service management. As an example, we introduce a dynamic pricing model in service providers' competition.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128837680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2007-11-19DOI: 10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383890
U. Kumar, Manandeep Singh
Factor analysis involves the study of order and structure in multivariate data. It starts with a set of observations obtained from a given sample, analyzing this set of observation with their inter-correlations to determine whether the variations represented can be accounted for adequately by a number of basic categories smaller than that with which the investigation was started. Factor analysis is applied to identify the latent constructs in the subjects being offered at a business school. The significance of this study is to get some insight on the course design of the prevailing academic curriculum.
{"title":"Factor analysis to identify latent constructs across management subjects at a business school","authors":"U. Kumar, Manandeep Singh","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383890","url":null,"abstract":"Factor analysis involves the study of order and structure in multivariate data. It starts with a set of observations obtained from a given sample, analyzing this set of observation with their inter-correlations to determine whether the variations represented can be accounted for adequately by a number of basic categories smaller than that with which the investigation was started. Factor analysis is applied to identify the latent constructs in the subjects being offered at a business school. The significance of this study is to get some insight on the course design of the prevailing academic curriculum.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"7 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120999316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}