Smart logistics and global supply chain management
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Smart logistics and global supply chain management Maritime Economics & Logistics (2016) 18, 1–2. doi:10.1057/mel.2015.13
This special issue on ‘Smart Logistics and Global Supply Chain Management’ consists of contributed papers at the 7th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS 2012) co-organized by the Korean Society of Supply Chain Management and International Federation of Logistics & SCM Systems, held during 7–9 June 2012 in Seoul, Korea with the theme of ‘Unfolding the New Era of Business Collaboration’. Participating scholars, business executives, government officials and students reached a broad consensus on what are the changes in the global economic and management environment and actively engaged in the exchange of ideas. We could leverage the information gathered in the conference to formulate the logistics and supply chain management (SCM) strategies, to unfold the new era of business collaboration. More than 150 papers, from 21 countries, were presented. After the conference, the extended papers were submitted to peer review. Finally, five papers were selected for this special issue of MEL on ‘Smart Logistics and Global Supply Chain Management’. The first paper ‘Free Trade Agreements and Maritime Supply Chain Costs: Competitiveness of Korean Firms’ provides essential details of several Free Trade Agreements (FTA) that have been completed since 2000. A proposed research model explains the relationships (i) between FTA and Global Supply Chain (GSC) strategies, and (ii) between marine supply chain costs and business impact results. Case illustrations highlight how Korean firms apply the potential benefits of multi-FTAs for achieving their GSC strategic management priorities and goals. In ‘The Rise of Chinese Ports and its Impact on Major Ports in East Asia’, authors investigate empirically how the growth of Chinese ports has affected the major ports in East Asia. Co-integration tests are employed to determine the long-term nature of the impact and error correction models are constructed to determine any short-run impacts, using time series data on container throughputs for the period of 1980–2010. The results show that the impacts have been varied, with ports like Singapore, Hong Kong, Pusan and © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 1479-2931 Maritime Economics & Logistics www.palgrave-journals.com/mel/
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Guest Editorial
the main Japanese ports losing the bulk of their container business to mainland Chinese ports. The article ‘Logistics Network Optimization considering Balanced Allocation and Vehicle Routing’, deals with the complex problem that arises when balanced allocation is integrated with vehicle routing decisions in a logistics network. This integrated problem is frequently encountered in many logistics networks that maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of available warehouses and distribution centers. After modeling the balanced allocation vehicle routing problem as a multi-objective mixed integer programming problem, a two-stage approach as a solution methodology is
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