Logistics Technology

This article addresses the issue of adoption timing in the diffusion of logistics technology. An event history analysis of warehouse automation technologies confirms the conceptual soundness of this relatively new procedure for predicting adoption of logistics technology. Implications for logistics technology research and managerial practice are presented.

The loader problem is a real problem from the logistics technology. The embryonic form of the problem was proposed and studied by Institute of Mathematics, Acadamia Sinica, in 1960's. The rapid development of the modern logistics technology motivates the presentation and study of the loader problem. The loader problem is a new NP-hard combination-optimization problem. In this paper we provide a restricted case of the loader problem and prove that it is psuedo-polynomially solvable.

Teaching strategies have been used by several Higher Education Institutions to improve learning rates. In this context,international surveys have identified Active Learning as a methodology that provides students with the ability to be co-authors of their own learning process in which they occupy the central role. Professors also play an important role ofprocess mediators through this methodology. Thus, strategies such as problem-based learning, collaborative learning, peerassessment, flipped classroom, among others, have been identified by experts as Active Learning approaches that increaselearning rates. It so happens because it improves autonomy in reading, self-learning, discussions in pairs, informationsharing, researches and discoveries. Despite the foregoing, Active Learning implementation in a higher education course isnot an easy task, thence this research seeks answers to the following question: ‘‘What are the main strengths, limitationsand challenges to implement Active Learning in a higher education institution?’’. In order to answer such a question, thispaper aims to present a case study on the implementation of Active Learning in a higher education program. The object ofthis research is an undergraduate course in Logistics Technology of a Brazilian institution, with emphasis on itsimplementation actions, feedback from students and professors and experiences obtained from the discipline of StatisticalMethods, which is considered as pilot project. In order to better understand its theory, a literature review of ActiveMethodology is going to be presented in the first and second sections, the third section is going to highlight someinternational experiences, its methods are going to be presented in the fourth section, and discussions of the case study andresearch conclusions are going to be shown in the fifth and sixth sections, respectively.Keywords:active learning; strengths; limitations; challenges; implementation; higher education; logistics

This article is aimed to critically analyze the responses of the customers relating to their expectations on the logistics technology innovations in the supply chain management. To meet this research aim, theoretical as well as empirical contributions were taken into consideration, wherein two companies were mainly analyzed, i.e., FedEx and DHL. The research method used for meeting the aims as well as objectives were both quantitative and qualitative approaches. In this regard, both secondary, as well as primary sources were used. The primary data was collected from a questionnaire survey and was analyzed by using Pearson’s correlation and regression. After the study, it was found

In the logistics technology development at the same time,but also because of contact between employees and equipment changes,resulted in the logistics management mode change. This change is conducive to the healthy development of China's logistics industry,whether can make full use of the resource endowment advantage,will be worth the problem. For questions need to pay attention to the former to the latter,namely the influence on management subject,management object,management of the environment. On this basis,focusing on the strengthening of staff need to post literacy,strengthening cost constraints,the purchase of the sound operation organization form,and improve the performance management of enterprises to"influence"control.

In the era of mass data will have a greater impact on the logistics industry,therefore,enterprises through various channels,including sensors and intelligent mobile phone to collect all kinds of real time data. The logistics technology and supply chain management together,realize the efficient integration of various data,can be better on a variety of data to use.

This report examines the current state of Logistics Technology use in New Zealand in 2014. Responses from 31 participants are divided into Leaders and Followers and then analysed. This provides insight into how those at the cutting edge of the use and management of Logistics Technology users perceive the challenges and opportunities differently to those that follow or adopt more slowly. Differences are seen in the types of technology employed and being invested in and how the effectiveness is measured. Followers tend to focus on cost measures and restrict analysis to intra-firm metrics; Leaders tend to use a wide range of measures and evaluate inter-firm metrics. In the near future, Leaders are more willing to invest in materials handling technologies. Leaders make significantly greater efforts relating to training and education to support Logistics Technologies, use a wider range of training methods, and use more formal training methods than Followers do.

The application of logistics technology in forestry is now at the beginning stage,limited field and low level.In this paper,the development of logistics technology in forest resource monitoring and service,forest fire control and service,ecological monitoring and forest tourism supervision and service.

This article expounds on the application of modern production logistics technology in manufacturing enterprises,and analyzes the main problems of locomotive manufacture.A living example of intellectual storage and retrieval system is given to illustrate the significance of modern production logistics technology to increase the economic results for enterprises.

Modern Logistics has become the new focus in the development of social economy and the investment of transportation, the rise of Wisdom Logistics has brought new vitality to the development of logistics industry. According to the needs of the development of railway transportation, this paper analyzes the internal relation between the Wisdom Logistics and railway transportation, and puts forward the applications of the Wisdom Logistics technology in the railway transportation. Wisdom Logistics has the technical functions of intelligence, perception, security and optimization, which can conserve resources, reduce the cost of logistics, improve the efficiency of transportation and enhance the competitiveness, and provide certain technical conditions and operating means for the development of rail transportation.