{"title":"Logistics Service Abilities : An Empirical Study of Its Impact on Service Quality in China","authors":"Yan Xiu-xia, Sima Zhongwen","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383872","url":null,"abstract":"Buyers' expectations regarding customer service have increased dramatically in recent years. Request for tailored or customized service often represent standard business practice today. Empirical research was undertaken to examine: (1) if there are different types of logistics service providers in China, and (2) whether a proposed linkage between logistics abilities and logistics service quality could be documented in this paper. The results show that there are three discernable types of logistics service providers, according to the logistics capacities and logistics capabilities displayed by each type. Further, strong support was found for a linkage between the logistics capabilities and the service quality, weak support was found for a linkage between the logistics capacities and the service quality by using the structural equation model.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"37 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":"127901955","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}
Changrui Ren, Jin Dong, Hongwei Ding, Wei Wang, Minmin Qiu
{"title":"A Method and Tool for Process-Centric Supply Chain Transformation","authors":"Changrui Ren, Jin Dong, Hongwei Ding, Wei Wang, Minmin Qiu","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383911","url":null,"abstract":"Supply chain transformation is an emerging service area in the market which is offered to help companies in maximizing the performance of their supply chain operations while reducing costs. An end-to-end supply chain transformation includes the improvement from strategic and tactical level, operational level, execution level and implementation level. Business process is the foundation and linkage of the whole supply chain transformation lifecycle. In this paper, we introduce an effort in IBM China Research Lab named On-demand Supply Chain Analytics Resource (OSCAR), which provides comprehensive methodology and tool support for supply chain transformation from a process-centric point of view. The tool provides an end-to-end support for supply chain transformation, which includes business process modeling, business process diagnosis, strategic and tactical decision making, etc. It has been successfully applied in several supply chain transformation projects for validation and hardening.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"35 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":"129438908","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}
{"title":"Research on Vehicle Scheduling Problem of distribution in VMI model","authors":"Hongguang Yao, Danqing Zhou","doi":"10.1109/WICOM.2007.1453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WICOM.2007.1453","url":null,"abstract":"Logistic distribution is an operation linking with consumer directly, and takes account for considerable proportion in variable costs in logistics. A scientific and reasonable method to vehicle scheduling is an important operation in logistic distribution. This paper attempts to take VSP in VMI as the tow core problems for further research. VSP in VMI may be looked as the stretch of the VSP above. On the VSP in VMI, this paper analyses the contribution of the optimization of logistic distribution's system. Being aimed at looking for the optimal distribution policy, this paper put delivery routing and inventory into consideration jointly, and brings forward an mathematic model and its algorithm. Consequently, results from the case proved the availability of the model and its algorithm.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126882052","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}
{"title":"A Dynamic (s, S) Replenishment Policy for Suppliers Engaged in VMI Agreement with Retailers","authors":"Lan-juan Liu, Xinyan Zhou","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383926","url":null,"abstract":"Using a rule-based decision making approach, this paper proposes a dynamic (s, S) replenishment policy for suppliers who practice VMI with their retailer customer. The relationship between the supplier overall cost and replenishment decision variables are explored through Monte Carlo simulation coupled with sensitivity analysis. The advantage of the proposed dynamic (s, S) policy is demonstrated through parallel comparison of different replenishment policy schemes. The paper discusses the application of dynamic (s, S) replenishment policy in the scenario of perishable goods and in the scenario of supply chain process with long lead time.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120947530","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}
{"title":"Research on the Organizational Mode of Information Resources in Knowledge Alliance Enterprises","authors":"Rende Feng, Zejun Liu","doi":"10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383884","url":null,"abstract":"The quick development of global economic integration and information technology (IT) urges enterprises to study new technologies and exalt their competitive abilities and reasonably utilize information resources (IR) to realize advantages complement and achieve the goal of alliance enterprises. Through the analysis of the new characteristics of all-directions, quick variability and \"explosiveness\" which possessed by the information resources of knowledge alliance enterprises, this paper describes the functions of aggregation and sequence, virtuality and universality, activity and promptness, interactivity and flexibility of information resources organization, in addition, the organizational mode of information resources of \"virtual information resources center\" is constituted.","PeriodicalId":154053,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics","volume":"352 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133958082","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}