List of Abstracts 2022: SESSION A - STRATEGIC LOGISTICS, SUPPLY CHAIN AND NETWORKS
Date: June 15, 2022
The characteristics of land are important for network optimization problems in logistics. Due to its large area and atypical geographical type, Turkey is good for testing and implementing network optimization in the European logistics sector. The main objective of this paper is to present a network optimization model and interfaces developed on the Borusan Logistics Less Than Truckload (LTL) management system, namely ATLAS LTL. The Model offers a new LTL Hub if necessary or selects the most suitable one by looking at the current province-district matches, operational volumetric weight flows, and current transfer center locations. To minimize infrastructure expenses and be adaptive to different transportation management systems, Azure Serverless Architecture is used. Moreover, the model outputs are served in HTML format as graphics, this enables the interpretation of the model outputs easily by end-users. Besides, the system works with more than one infrastructure element communicating with each other and it uses serverless architecture that provide, the cloud service automatically provides, scales, and manages the infrastructure needed to run the code. Because of these features, the system is useful, accessible and sustainable. The importance of this study is to calculate the volumetric weight distributions in the province-district distribution centers and try to minimize the cost while making this calculation.
The outsourcing is the one the way for Value Chain Management realisation. On the one hand the outsourcing concept is defined as tailor-made service, on the other hand, it is the transfer of support processes to another organization to achieve the company's strategic goals.
Logistics processes outsourcing currently represents a wide range of potential services and the ways they are implemented.
It is defined the basic levels of logistics services providing and their characteristic features in the paper. The main goal of this paper is to describe the current state of use of logistics services outsourcing in the Czech Republic.
This paper aims to define the basic parameters of modern logistics services outsourcing, to present the results of our own primary research. The research was carried out in the enterprises of different sizes in Czech Republic.
The quantitative research was realised in the form of questionnaire survey. The issues of primary research concerned both the type of services requested and the way of managing supplier-customer relationship within the provision of logistics services.
The interpretation of the research results is described in the paper. The paper sets out the characteristic features of the current state of management of logistics services outsourcing in the Czech Republic. The result of this paper is the development directions definition of logistics services outsourcing. It is described the suitability of use the selected to strengthen supplier-customer relationships in the provision of logistics services.
The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to the fact that the issue of courier, delivery and shipping companies, or the entire logistics chain associated with online shopping, is viewed in a completely different way than it was before the pandemic crisis. Under the pressure of circumstances, more and more small and medium-sized businesses are starting to sell online. In online markets, they are starting to open online stores and invest in their own websites and mobile applications, thus reinforcing the already existing multi-channel trend. During the COVID-19 pandemic, courier, delivery and shipping companies saw a massive increase in demand, which is also related to the fact that the larger the number of courier, delivery and shipping companies operating in the country, the more the companies must share total revenues of the sector. The paper deals with the issue of sustainable development of the corporate reputation of courier, delivery and shipping companies in Slovakia, specifically their corporate reputation in the context of the online environment. The research sample consists of all 23 companies, belonging to the courier, delivery and shipping companies and at the same time operating on the Slovak market. Their selection is made based on alphabetical order compiled by the Slovak online magazine Retailmagazin in the second half of 2021. Online reputation and online reputation management contribute to the development of responsible and sustainable business growth in the Internet, whereby improving perceived image it is possible to value their intangible assets. The findings identified from the sentiment analysis provide an up-to-date and relevant view of the issue of sustainable corporate reputation and at the same time provide a knowledge base for continuous research into the impact of the pandemic on supply chain management, as well as an empirical basis for applying knowledge to business practice.
Integrating the cooperation of enterprises in supply chain is distinguished among the key factors enabling the achievement of competitive advantage. In the supply chain, suppliers (of raw materials, materials, semi-finished products, parts), manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, as well as providers of specialized logistics services cooperate with each other. In terms of the development of the concept of Green Supply Chain and Sustainable development, the companies operating in reverse logistics are also of great importance. This applies to service providers collecting waste and secondary raw materials, units disassembling used and spoiled products, companies processing secondary raw materials, as well as companies dealing with final waste disposal. Due to the diversity of enterprises participating in the supply chain activities, differences in the expected effects of cooperation, as well as the need to ensure continuity and security of cooperation, it is important to properly prepare and conduct negotiations, especially in bilateral relations. These negotiations are conducted in special conditions, in which the expectations and attitude to cooperation depend on the links with other partners. The objective of the paper is to present a concept for describing the specificity of negotiations within the supply chain. Firstly the features of supply chain as specific negotiations environment are presented. Within the subsequent parts of the paper in order to present the features of negotiations within supply chain the methodological framework was applied, comprising the key aspects of negotiation’s definition, distinguished on the basis of literature analysis. The summary synthetizes the major features of the considered negotiations, and also indicates the directions of research enriching the proposed concept.