Efficiency loss and coordination in the online shopping supply chain with competitive shipping companies

Author(s):  
Yihong Hu ◽  
Qiang Qiang
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianming Yao ◽  
Mengjie Gu

For an online-shopping company, whether it can provide its customers with customized service is the key to enhance its customers’ experience value and its own competence. A good customized service requires effective integration and reasonable allocation of the company’s supply chain resources running in the background. Based on the analysis of the allocation of supply chain resources in the customized online shopping service mode and its operational characteristics, this paper puts forward an optimization model for the resource allocation and builds an improved ant algorithm to solve it. Finally, the effectiveness and feasibility of the optimization method and algorithm are demonstrated by a numerical simulation. This paper finds that the special online shopping environments lead to many dynamic and uncertain characters of the service demands. Different customized service patterns and their combination patterns should match with different supply chain resource allocations. The optimization model not only reflects the required service cost and delivery time in the objective function, but also considers the service scale effect optimization and the relations of integration benefits and risks. The improved ant algorithm has obvious advantages in flexibly balancing the multiobjective optimizations, adjusting the convergence speed, and adjusting the operation parameters.


IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 138984-138998
Author(s):  
Xinghong Qin ◽  
Yuanyuan Cao ◽  
Shaobo Wu ◽  
Qiang Lin ◽  
Dapeng Yang

Author(s):  
Ava Linda Cardoso

This paper is an overview of augmented reality’s basic concepts and its connection to the logistics field. The paper includes a brief history of the tech and how it differs to the virtual reality. The main goal is to understand how augmented reality is being used in logistics to innovate and enhance services. It refers to how courier and freight companies are taking advantage of this technology to upgrade the warehouses, transportation and enhance value added services. It also analyses how the retail market is modernizing its stores and is using mobile applications for online shopping. Using augmented reality has overall pros and cons and even though is a technology on its early stages it shows a great potential to revolutionize the supply chain in its totality.


2021 ◽  
Vol 279 ◽  
pp. 123271
Author(s):  
Yisheng Wu ◽  
Ronghua Lu ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
Rong Wang ◽  
Hao Xu ◽  
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