In the recent years, new electronic procurement technologies have been successfully implemented in freight transportation marketplaces. This new type of trading between freight transportation agents requires new analytical ...

Multi-echelon distribution networks are quite common in supply chain and logistics. Deliveries of multiple items from factories to customers are managed by routing and consolidating shipments in warehouses carrying on ...

Less-than-truckload is a transport modality that includes many practical variations to convey a number of transportation-requests from the origin locations to their destinations by using the possibility of goods-transshipments ...

Scheduling product batches in pipelines is a very complex task with many constraints to be considered. Several papers have been published on the subject during the last decade. Most of them are based on large-size MILP ...

Este artigo apresenta um método de cálculo de rentabilidade econômica de unidades operacionais (UOs) de empresas de transporte de carga fracionada que operam através de uma rede logística com múltiplas UOs. O cálculo da ...

Distribution is one of the most important processes in a supply chain, given that it represents up to two thirds of company logistics costs and up to 20% of the total cost of products. For that reason, it is essential to ...

This article applies two novel techniques to forecast the value of US manufacturing, shipments over the period 1956-2000: wavelets and support vector machines (SVM). Wavelets have become increasingly popular ill the fields ...