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Cooperation In Enterprise Logistics And Distribution Optimization Study

Posted on:2006-08-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y C LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2209360182456213Subject:Transportation planning and management
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With the market competition becoming more and more fierce, enterprises begin to decrease cost of logistics so as to increase the competitiveness of their products. At present, for the purpose of decreasing cost of logistics, enterprises begin to take such methods as logistic outsourcing, seeking help from modernized information management system, enhancing employee's responsibility of cost control, using supply chain management in the whole process of product circulation and so on.Transportation is the most important part in modern logistics and freight is the important cost index in supply chain and logistic system. Therefore a successful logistic distribution system must have a transportation network with high efficiency, low transportation cost and quick reaction. With the development of e-business and door-to-door service, the importance of transportation distribution network becomes more and more obvious in manufacturing, retailing and modern logistics enterprises. At present, because the needs of consumers tend to be more and more specific and various, and the business management of enterprises becomes more and more accurate and flexible, enterprises are demanded objectively to be capable of providing many types of services with small volume and high frequency. Due to these changes, cooperative distribution becomes hot.Since the 20th Century, profound changes have taken place in the forms of enterprises for the sake of the information technology revolution and the economic localization. Under this background, network forms of enterprises, represented by the virtual enterprise, become quite popular in developed countries. This thesis mainly researches the enterprise logistics association, which participates in the cooperative distribution network, by using computer network and on the basis of the network form of enterprise, and its optimization. The main participant of the cooperative distribution can be enterprise logistics association that is comprised of such logistics demanders as manufacturer, whole merchants and retailers, as well as such suppliers as transportation and warehouse enterprises.By adopting both the qualitative and the quantitative approaches, the thesis studies how to optimize two main parts of the cooperative distribution management system, that is, its structure and the planning of transportation distribution network. On the basis of the illustration of the related concepts of cooperation distributionand logistics distribution, it analyzes the unique advantages that an enterprise will have if it takes cooperative distribution, and the feasibility of the cooperative distribution. And in accordance with the characteristics of the enterprise logistics association as well as the fundamental theories of distribution, the thesis constructs a cooperative distribution system and designs a management information platform system of the cooperative distribution and its distribution process. By proving and analyzing the cost control of the cooperative distribution and taking the approach of operational research, the author establishes a mathematical modal of the cooperative distribution transportation network, that is, a proper modal of distribution transportation network. The author also provides a heuristic algorithm of calculating it, thus seeking for the answer of the mathematical modal. Finally, the thesis uses the computer software (lingo) to analyze the function of the modal and its answer so as to determine a best cooperative distribution network from the perspective of optimizing the whole system.Li Yichao (Transportation planning & Management) Directed by Professor Wang Zheng...
Keywords/Search Tags:Distribution, Cooperation distribution, Distribution network, Heuristic algorithm
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