Blockchain Applications in Shipping, Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain

This study identifies various issues in managing transportation logistics activities on the basis of literature review and expert panel discussions so that the facilitation of e-applications can be used for managing transportation logistics activities. A field survey was conducted for checking the relevance level on a five-point Likert scale. A total of 198 responses were obtained from taken from mill managers, distributors, IT companies and large-size sugar consuming companies (LSSCC) to check the scope of e-applications for the issues in both structured and unstructured ways. With these respondents, the suitability of e-applications was checked for the issues related to transportation management activities. The study results are statistically significant and correlated to each other which help in facilitating e-applications. The study also provides some suggestive e-solutions with respect to different transportation logistics management activities with certain implications.

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A BIM-based Supply Chain Integration for Prefabrication and Modularization

Modular and Offsite Construction (MOC) Summit Proceedings ◽

10.29173/mocs35 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Iloabuchi Alex Ocheoha ◽

Osama Moselhi

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Cash Flows ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Supply Chain Integration ◽

Just In Time ◽

Lead Times ◽

Model Driven ◽

Building Information ◽

Transportation Logistics ◽

Precast Elements

Prefabrication and modularization helps to reduce cost and schedule time for on-site activities. The use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) helps to improve collaboration and improve the construction process. The improved installation precision provided by BIM Model-Driven Prefabrication can decrease on-site labor time and increase productivity. Prefabrication, Modularization, and off-site construction transfers activities that would have been performed on site to earlier stages of the supply chain. The implementation of Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery transfers the costs and risks associated with inventory to the supplier. Construction Supply Chain Integration can help reduce cost and waste across the supply chain particularly for large and complex buildings. This paper presents a methodology that utilizes a BIM based construction supply chain integration to reduce cost and waste in the construction and offsite manufacturing processes. It utilizes the integration of BIM with the on-site schedule and the manufacturing or fabrication schedule of the different supply chain members. The methodology utilizes the onsite schedule, lead times of prefabricated elements or modules and the transportation logistics to help reduce cost across the supply chain. The information, material and cash flows as well as the transportation logistics is utilized in generating an optimized just-in-time delivery schedule for large and complex buildings. The optimized delivery schedule takes into account the variations in the on-site and off-site schedules to forecast delivery dates of precast elements or fabricated modules.

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The Diamond Anniversary: Sixty Years of Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Research

Transportation Journal ◽

10.5325/transportationj.60.1.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Swanson ◽

Suzuki

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Transportation Logistics

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Design and Realization of RFID Cold Chain Logistics Management System

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.310.584 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 310 ◽

pp. 584-587

Author(s):

Jin Hai Zhang ◽

Bo Ye

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

20Th Century ◽

Management System ◽

Logistics Management ◽

Cold Chain ◽

Rfid Technology ◽

Great Role ◽

Software Applications ◽

Transportation Logistics ◽

Logistics Management System

RFID technology as one of the top ten technology of the 20th century, has been in transportation, logistics, industrial and other fields has been more and more widely applied, and are increasingly showing its great potential. RFID cold chain logistics management system to promote the implementation of automation, intelligence, and integration of software applications such as supply chain will play a great role in promoting.

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Warehousing and transportation logistics of mango in Colombia: A system dynamics model

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería ◽

10.19053/01211129.v26.n44.2017.5773 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (44) ◽

pp. 71 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Javier Arturo Orjuela-Castro ◽

Milton Mauricio Herrera-Ramírez ◽

Wilson Adarme-Jaimes

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

System Dynamics ◽

Performance Measures ◽

Packaging Materials ◽

System Dynamics Model ◽

Dynamics Model ◽

Chain Packing ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Transportation Logistics

This paper evaluates the incidence of packing asymmetries, resulted from the use of heterogeneous packaging materials by different mango supply chain actors in Colombia, on performance measures of inventory, transportation, and quality. A system dynamics model was proposed based on the literature review on inventory and transportation logistics, the studies on asymmetries in supply chain, packing, and packaging, and the results of the characterization of the fruit chain logistics in various departments of Colombia from 2012 to 2013. We used the proposed model to test the following hypothesis: “The asymmetry in the packaging, derived from the actors’ individual management, creates inefficiencies that may be avoid if the packaging of the fruit is done thinking on the chain”. The developed simulation model allowed us to prove the proposed dynamic hypothesis. Forrester’s model includes four echelons for the supply chain: production, processing, wholesale, and retail, as well as warehousing, transportation and information.

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