Freight and warehouse exchanges: modern logistic information systems

• Autorzy: Kovács G.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The paper begins with a description about the services of electronic freight and ware-house exchanges currently available on the Internet, then, continues to point out their shortcomings. Based on this, it demonstrates the participants, the aims, the structure and the services of a logistically and economically ideal electronic freight and warehouse exchange system. Then it presents the e-commerce toolbar (catalogue, tenders, auctions), which gives the framework of choosing. It empha-sises the application of a self-developed multi-criteria decision supporting algorithm (based on AHP – Analytic Hierarchy Process -) in the assessment of offers received for tender. The paper describes one optimum search problem emerging in electronic freight and warehouse exchanges, then presents, in details, the ant colony algorithm (BA_ACO) for its solution (to support the complex logistics processes). The demonstration of the modules and operational process of this system is done with the help of self-developed VBA-based (Visual Basic Application) algorithms.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

e-commerce; decision supporting; optimization; complex logistics processes

PL

złożone procesy logistyczne; wspomaganie decyzji; optymalizacja

• Wydawca: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
• Czasopismo: Research in Logistics & Production
• Rocznik: 2012
• Tom: Vol. 2, No. 1
• Strony: 43--54
• Opis fizyczny: Refer. 17 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Kovács G.

• Department of Transportation Technology, Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, 1111, Hungary,

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