Smart freight to enhance control of supply chains

Lumsden, Kenth; Stefánsson, Gunnar

doi:10.1504/ijlsm.2007.012996

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“…Advance the concept of market trends, a significant potential can be increased. The driving force is the rate of change in a certain area of the economy, including transport.Several flows should be managed to accomplish the transportation operations (Lumsden, 2007). One flow is the resource flow, including internal resources such as forklifts, pallets or other load units and external resources such as vehicles, containers, etc…”

Section: Transportation and Logistics Processes In The Supply Chain Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Technology and Systems in Transport Supply Chains

Kherbach¹,

Kaboul²,

Deghir³

2022

European Journal of Formal Sciences and Engineering

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Transportation and movement of goods is one of the most important human needs, the operation of transportation determines the efficiency of moving products. The progress in techniques and information technology (IT) and management principles improves the moving load, delivery speed, service quality, operation costs, the usage of facilities and energy saving. This study deals with the logistics processes in supply chain management, information technology in management and prospects for the use of information technology in the transportation logistics segment, with particular attention paid to the key factors in information technology that affects the efficiency of transport , allows information to be collected on such as traffic volume, flow, average traffic speed, and actual journey time. Such innovative means of gathering data on automobile traffic open up new perspectives for assessing transport accessibility in terms of automobile traffic by providing high-quality data that meet the requirements for use in company. The main purpose of this study is to give a comprehensive review of information technology (IT) and relationship with transport leading to increased competition and improvement of the level of Algerian companies.

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Section: Transportation and Logistics Processes In The Supply Chain Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Technology and Systems in Transport Supply Chains

Kherbach¹,

Kaboul²,

Deghir³

2022

European Journal of Formal Sciences and Engineering

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“…Vidal and Goetschalckx (1997) presented a broad review on strategic production-distribution models with emphasis on global supply chain networks [also, refer to Amorim et al (2013), Arshinder et al (2008), Bilgen (2010), Günther and Seiler (2010), Kalpana andKaur (2011), Park (2005) and Rizk et al (2008) for problems on multi-stage supply chain]. Lumsden and Stefansson (2007) address smart freight to enhance control of supply chains. The meaning of smart freight is clarified and classifications are made to compare traditional systems for controlling the freight flow with a smart supply chain.…”

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Material flow optimisation in a multi-echelon and multi-product supply chain

Srinivasan

Gopalakrishnan

Rajkanth

2017

IJLSM

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This paper addresses a distribution problem in a multi-product, multi-echelon supply chain. We develop a mixed integer linear programming formulation that considers allocation of vehicles with varying capacities for the transportation of products between the stages of the supply chain. The cost of transportation includes the fixed and variable costs of using the vehicles. The proposed formulations are solved optimally up to certain sizes, and we propose a heuristic based on total opportunity penalty cost method to solve the large sized problems. These proposed solution procedure is tested over a set of hypothetical problem sets. The results indicate that the proposed heuristic algorithm yields solutions within 5% from the optimal solutions.

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“…Intelligent Cargo is the key for storing data and information at the goods level, allowing data and information to follow the goods on their way to their final destination (Holmqvist andStefansson, 2007, Lumsden and.…”

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“…A holistic approach, including both the use of IT and business process re-engineering to tackle these challenges is necessary (Bowersox et al, 2000, Holmqvist and. A holistic concept integrating technologies and decentralized freight information are Smart Freight, introduced by Lumsden and Stefansson (2007) and Intelligent Cargo (Eurodice, 2009, Schumacher et al, 2009. Other identical concepts to Smart Freight and Intelligent Cargo are Intelligent Freight, Smart Goods, etc.…”

Section: Intelligent Cargo -Enabling Future's Sustainable and Accountable Transportation System Introductionmentioning

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Intelligent cargo ‐ enabling future’s sustainable and accountable transportation system

Sternberg

Hagen

Paganelli

et al. 2010

W J of Sci, Tech and Sus Dev

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Today, the transport industry is facing increasing demands on reducing both the environmental impact and cost of freight transports. Another demand, coming from the end consumers, is the demand for ecological accountability, so-called ecological foot-printing, meaning that the emission of every freight movement is distributed to the freight. Previous research shows that transport planning, system integration and control are some of the key factors to achieve more sustainable transport setups. One of the major obstacles preventing these factors is the complexity of international supply chains, with several involved actors. Smart Freight is a holistic concept, integrating transport management and state-of-the-art technologies for freight tracking and vehicle monitoring, in order to enable improved management and accountability of freight transportation. The purpose of this research is to explore how Smart Freight can be used to control, track and reduce the environmental impact of goods transportation. This research is based on two in-depth case studies and a demonstration prototype of one of the studied transport setups. An extensive amount of data was collected between 2006 and 2008 through interviews, video filming, document studies, physical travel with the freight flows, seminars, prototype building, literature and desktop studies. The result of this research highlights the weaknesses in today's control of transport operations and presents a model for how Smart Freight enables a more environmentally friendly and accountable transport system.

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Smart freight to enhance control of supply chains

Cited by 27 publications

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Information Technology and Systems in Transport Supply Chains

Information Technology and Systems in Transport Supply Chains

Material flow optimisation in a multi-echelon and multi-product supply chain

Intelligent cargo ‐ enabling future’s sustainable and accountable transportation system

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