Logistics decisions

The fermentation of cocoa beans is an important part of cocoa processing. Fermentation of cocoa beans increases the quality and price of the beans and the resultant cocoa. Although the fermentation of cocoa beans can increase the quality and income of cocoa farming, few farmers in Indonesia implement this fermentation process. This research therefore, focuses on the way Indonesian farmers assess whether or not to ferment their cocoa beans. A total of 284 cocoa farmers were sampled in Central Sulawesi Indonesia.

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This paper proposes a collaborative process to handle demands received by a carrier for urban goods’ delivery. The purpose of this article is to provide support for carriers analyzing the demands, physical resources, human resources, risks and profitability, in order to decide processing internally or externally a goods’ delivery demand or rejecting it. Such a process, called CUFP (Collaborative Urban Freight Process), is based on an analysis of urban movements of goods, divided into four stages: check out of extreme conditions, feasibility study, exploitation study and execution.

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The purpose of our research is to study the existing problems in the food supply chain management and to propose a decision-making algorithm for efficient and competitive business development. The study and generalization of theoretical studies in the field of food supply chain management allowed us to identify and formulate the specifics of this industry with the help of the following research methods: selection of logistics intermediaries, forecasting (indicators, flows, etc.), arrangement of nomenclature groups, optimization under risk conditions, statistical methods in data processing.

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This study aims to identify students' styles of career choices. The second aim is to investigate what factors influence career choice style. The third aim is to determine whether all students of education programs want to become teachers one day. This research model is a relational model that uses multinomial logistic regression.

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The transportation of goods and people between islands poses distinctive logistical hurdles due to the geographical remoteness and varied infrastructure prevalent in island settings. This study introduces a theoretical framework designed to improve the efficiency of selecting and routing hub islands in an interisland logistics network by utilizing the hub-and-spoke model.

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The paper considers the historical retrospective of the development of logistics paradigms and analyzes the apparatus used to solve applied logistics problems. Obstacles to the implementation of the integrated paradigm of logistics, its analytical approach and simulation tools are investigated, which allowed to determine the structure of the decision support system in the management of material flow and formulate the concept of logistics coordination.

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This study aims to explore criteria for recruiting qualified personnel in logistics companies in Vietnam and apply these criteria into practical recruitment case by using a multiple decision-making method suggested by the authors.

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"Customer loyalty in supply chain management model: Promotion, products, and registration decision analysis" is the result of years of work by the authors on different projects concerning the overlapping areas of supply chains, logistics and marketing, drawing a connection between the literatures to provide a holistic picture of the customer loyalty framework. It is solely to improve the competitiveness of local human resources with foreign workers, especially from ASEAN.

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—Through a correlative comparative analysis, the purpose of this study is to utilize LP and the data accumulated between (2009 - 2017) to investigate the optimality of the current transportation strategy of actual costs to transport major Jordanian exports and imports. Study findings reveal that current exporting and importing strategies are ineffective. Results assert that decision-makers have not developed nor have taken the required action needed to resolve excessive expenditures.

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This article aims to characterize the main methodologies for validating the implementation of ICT in logistics processes to support the decision-making process to select the ICT that best suits to logistics processes in a firm. For this, the characterization of models such as TAM, UTAUT, DART, DMAIC, AMEF, and QDF is presented.

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This article aims to identify the factors considered by Indonesian companies in selecting 3PL. Respondents of this research are managers of logistics or persons in charge of logistics activities. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used to elaborate the relationship between factors affecting 3PL selection decision. The results indicate that Information Technology (IT) usage, service quality, trust and customer satisfaction are the factors affecting the companies to select a 3PL provider. Other results also show that there is a significant relationship between those factors.

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The intent of this book is to describe some recent data mining tools that have proven effective in dealing with data sets which often involve uncertain description or other complexities that cause difficulty for the conventional approaches of logistic regression, neural network models, and decision trees. We have organized the material into three parts. Part I introduces concepts. Part II contains chapters on a number of different techniques often used in data mining. Part III focuses on business applications of data mining.

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Ebook "Retailing logistics and fresh food packaging: Managing change in the supply chain" analyse state of the art packaging logistics for fresh food retailing and draw on primary research in the UK, Europe and the USA. It demonstrates the benefits to be gained from adopting new techniques and provides lessons on how to achieve successful implementation. It will help organizations and academics understand the changes and opportunities in modern fresh food supply chains and how to overcome the challenges.

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Physical asset management: With an introduction to ISO55000" provides readers with contents including: general management considerations; cost–benefit analysis; risk analysis and risk management; technical areas; logistic support; asset basic care; maintenance organization and budget; stock control; financial analysis; equipment replacement decisions; ISO 55000 standard; ISO 55000 series standards;...

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Part 1 book "Managing reverse logistics or reversing logistics management" includes content: Introduction, a framework for reverse logistics, reverse logistics - a review of case studies, return handling - decision making and quantitative support; return handling - an exploratory study.

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Part 2 book "The palgrave handbook of humanitarian logistics and supply chain management" includes content: Developing individual competencies for humanitarian logistics, governance of service triads in humanitarian logistics, multimodal logistics in disaster relief, decision support systems for urban evacuation logistics in practice, advances in network accessibility and reconstruction after major earthquakes,... and other contents.

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Ebook "Business marketing: Text and cases (Fourth edition)" extensively updates all concepts and adds to it new concepts such as Supply chain strategies and Multi-attribute decision making. The text provides the reader with content and examples to ensure that students are introduced to concepts which are utilized in today's businesses.

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The study analyses the factors that influence consumer decisions on purchasing organic agricultural products in Hanoi. By synthesizing previous research, the authors establish Ordinal Logistic Regression (OLR) through survey questionnaires for 300 consumers in Hanoi in March 2018. The empirical model shows that there are eight factors, which have significantly positive impacts on the consumer decisions to purchase organic agricultural products.

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Ebook Principles of supply chain management: A balanced approach (3e) – Part 2 includes contents: Chapter 9 domestic U.S. and global logistics, chapter 10 customer relationship management, chapter 11 global location decisions, chapter 12 service response logistics, chapter 13 supply chain process integration, chapter 14 performance measurement along the supply chain.

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Part 2 book "Handbook of industrial and systems engineering" includes content: Human factors and ergonomics; economic and financial analysis; management, information engineering, and decision making; safety, reliability, and quality; sperations research, queuing, logistics, and scheduling.

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