Logistics Technology Research Articles

Logistics Technology Forecasting Framework Using Patent Analysis for Technology Roadmap

The rapid advancement of digital technologies has fundamentally changed the competitive dynamics of the logistics industry. For players in the logistics industry, digitization has become an unavoidable situation to achieve survival and sustainable competitiveness. A technology strategy is essential for digitization, and identifying opportunities and threats of technology development through technology trend exploration is important for technology strategy. In addition, to enable the implementation of the technology strategy, it is necessary to detect the change in technology and search for the technology that is expected to have a practical development effect. The purpose of this study is to identify opportunities and areas for technology development through patent data in establishing technology strategies. Previous research mainly relied on the expert interview method, and there was also a patent analysis study based on topic modeling, but only to grasp technology trends. This paper aims to propose a new framework for the extension to the stage for establishing a technology roadmap. By using the Word2Vec algorithm, we will investigate the patent search formula that reflects the trend, the prediction of changes in logistics technology through LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) clustering of patent data, and the derivation of vacant technology by experimental methods. The proposed framework is expected to be utilized for predicting technological change and deriving promising technologies for establishing technology roadmaps in logistics companies.

Application of logistic concept for the organization of small academic groups training in higher education institutions

Purpose. From the standpoint of educational logistics, we consider organization of training of small academic groups (SAG) in higher education institutions (HEIs). We consider separate components of the logistics system of HEIs and features of resource, information and service streams for maintenance of training of SAG. We substantiate the expediency of organizing student training in the SAG to meet regional staffing needs. Methodology. In our study, we use system-structural methods (including systems analysis, generalization, research-targeted generalization and systematization of economic, statistical, and scientific-methodological data) as well as the logistical approach. To substantiate the results, we conduct a sociological survey using the statistical data processing based on multicomponent correlation analysis. Findings. The institution of higher education is considered as a logistics system consisting of numerous interconnected links that require the use of information, resource and service flows adapted to educational conditions. For flow management, the use of logistics technologies is proposed, which are combined in the Learning and Development (L&D) model, which has four components. The authors provide a detailed review of these components with highlights on their functional aspects that aim to ensure an economically, organizationally and methodologically sound joint SAG training for students from different specializations. The data is provided testifying to expediency of carrying out training of experts in HEIs of that region where there is a need for these experts, even in spite of bigger cost of training of SAG students. Originality. For the first time, a logistical concept was used to consider the organization of SAG training in the HEIs. The application of the L&D model for logistics system flow management has been improved, as well as the contaminated form of training and diversification of subject content, which ensure the quality of the service flow during the joint training of students of different specialties. Practical value. The application of the logistics concept for the organization of SAG training in HEIs allows one, on the one hand, to optimally realize the state interests in regional staffing, and on the other to increase the stability of HEIs in a rapidly changing market economy.

Economic Analysis of Logistics Network in the Context of Supply Chain Management

At present, the market economy system is constantly reforming and upgrading, and the market competition is becoming more and more intense, which also brings new challenges and opportunities for various industries. The application of supply chain management in logistics network can effectively create revenue for enterprises, optimize the sharing and joint utilization of their information resources. It is a scientific and advanced management mode in today's environment. So how to effectively maximize the benefits of supply chain management logistics network and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises, the following will be the background of supply chain management, logistics network economics of win-win strategy, risk and credit and other aspects of the specific analysis, the use of economic principles to explore the concept of enterprise logistics management, technology backwardness and other issues and put forward relevant strategies for reference.

The Challenges in Adoption of Transparency in Block Chain Technology in Logistics of Food Supply Chain

Block chain ledger technology is one of the key emerging models to be adopted by business if they want to survive in the upcoming competitive environment. It is necessary for food supply chain to overcome challenges like quality control, food frauds, maintenance, traceable and clean operation, customer satisfaction, digitization requirements and any other, this is only possible by implementation of block chain technology, which is still in earlier stages having a lot of potential for managing such challenges. This paper also discusses different challenges and risk associated with food supply chain while implementing block chain technology, discussed by many other researchers as well. In the end this paper discusses, recommends and highlights those areas where more research can be done.

Drone technology and performance of retail logistics

The purpose of this research study was to explore drone technology and performance of retail logistics by offering academic and practical benefits, explaining the preceding, and recommending a research plan based on a conceptual framework for drone technology and performance of retail logistics. A literature review has been created to assist today's retail logistics managers and researchers in scrutinizing what has been previously researched and what needs to be explored. From the standpoint of retail logistics, the study adds to our knowledge of drone technology as it relates to the performance of retail logistics and the constraints of future research. This study utilized a systematic literature review to design a suggested conceptual framework for a research agenda on drone technology and performance of retail logistics. The research paper provides insights into deficiencies in the drone technology, along with performance of retail logistics literature. The research paper explicitly recommends exploring the drone technology as it relates to expected and actual performance of retail logistics. This article contributes to the literature in a number of ways. To begin with, it provides the first comprehensive succinct synopsis of the essential concepts in the drone technology and retail logistics. Second, the impact of retail logistics in the growth of the economy. Third, the application of drone technology in retail logistics. Fourth, unnoticed challenges in retail logistics are then exposed as ideas for potential research. Finally, the technique utilized to conduct the systematic literature review can be used as a model for prospective researchers when conducting similar research. Contemporary research is aimed at providing a research group that address the needs of adopting the current technology on the performance of retail logistics. For performance of retail logistics, the article presents a suggested conceptual framework for drone technology and performance of retail logistics.

Introducing the Benefits of Autonomous Vehicles to Logistics During the COVID-19 Era

Recent years have seen an evolution in automation and logistics technologies, especially with the recent growth of the e-commerce industry. The current COVID-19 pandemic and the spread of smart cities have made it necessary to rethink this sector regarding sustainability and resilience. There is a widespread need to redesign some of the steps that lead goods to our homes, encouraging decarbonization policies, reducing contacts between people for possible contagions and at the same time ensuring that products arrive intact and on time. Currently, there is only limited research on the impact of autonomous vehicles on the logistics industry. This paper reviews the literature by analyzing which autonomous systems have been integrated into long, medium, and short-distance logistics. It is clear that the adoption of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) stimulates possible innovation in mobility management and transportation logistics and provides the impetus for many unexplored research opportunities. The research investigates the main theoretical and practical benefits related to the use of autonomous vehicles in logistics, differentiating four areas of action (i.e., indoor and outdoor environments, long-distance and first and last-mile logistics).

스마트 물류에서 인공지능 활용에 관한 연구

Purpose This study intends to present trend of artificial intelligence of technology in smart logistics and provide suggestion of IP-R&D strategy to company which is performing smart logistic in korea market Methods A total of 7,369 patent data of companies in US. and Korea were obtained from keywert and quantitative analysis and LDA based topic modeling are used to analyze trend of technology. Results firstly It was found that technology which are relevant to artificial intelligence widely used in smart logistics industry. second patents of advanced company like Amazon in US, Coupang in Korea have been increased but the other Korean companies have few patents which are related to smart logistics. Conclusion Big data, autonomous vehicle, voice and text recognition are main technology(hot topic) in smart logistic which is in the matured phase, smart logistics companies in the beginning step are needed to acquire IP-R&D strategy with above technologies, in addition government should have long-tern investment as national infrastructure as other advanced countries

The Hyperloop: The innovative logistic technology

Railroads, roads, rivers, and airways are the most common modes of transportation for people and commodities. The cost of different ways of transportation varies according to distance, luxury, size, fragility, and other factors. When the following factors are accounted for, the vehicle might become prohibitively expensive for many individuals. A new means of conveyance has been developed. Elon Musk initially proposed it as the fifth mode of transportation in 2012. For commuters and goods, Hyperloop offers a quick and cost-effective way of transportation. The Hyperloop is essentially a vacuum tube train that transports people or products at incredible speeds while efficiently. Compared to traditional forms of transportation, the Hyperloop is ideal since it is highly energy-efficient, quiet, and self-contained. Increased cargo delivery speeds will be the most evident benefit of this idea to the industry. Hyperloop also has the potential to make a significant contribution to green supply chains. It is a carbon-free form of transportation that has changed inland freight transportation and maritime and air freight transit. It can move freight below, above ground, and under-water. The aim of this paper is to explain this new innovative technology as a development for logistic concepts.

Mega-urban politics: Analyzing the infrastructure turn through the national state lens

Recent studies have focused attention on the proliferation of plans in the Global South for massive infrastructure investment to accelerate peri-urbanization and link together networks of proximate cities. This paper proposes that a focus on the national politics of the infrastructure push is an essential starting point to understand this trend, both because the national state plays a constitutive role in the processes that are shaping emerging urbanity, and because national states are themselves being transformed by this moment. In pursuing infrastructure-driven extended urbanization, national state actors seek to capitalize on moments of opportunity presented by shifts in the investment priorities of transnational financial actors, and by advances in infrastructure and logistics technologies, to gain power through the formation of political regimes based on economic growth and the distribution of rents from land development. Hence extended urbanization proceeds not as a gradual and linear process, but is instead marked by waves of disruptive and politically contentious reforms and plans intended to enable real estate, infrastructure, and logistics megaprojects. The current wave of political projects around extended urbanization is marked by distinct features, including the increasingly fragmented and decentered nature of transnational finance, and geopolitical dynamics associated with the emergence of an increasingly polycentric global order. It is consequently marked by geopolitical competition to shape emergent state agendas of extended urbanization, and by increasing variegation in the models of infrastructure-driven extended urbanization that state actors adopt. The paper illustrates these arguments with examples from Southeast Asia's mega-urban regions.

Analysis of optimized response time in a new disaster management model by applying metaheuristic and exact methods

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to maximize the total demand covered by the established additive manufacturing and distribution centers and maximize the total literal weight assigned to the drones. Design/methodology/approach Disaster management or humanitarian supply chains (HSCs) differ from commercial supply chains in the fact that the aim of HSCs is to minimize the response time to a disaster as compared to the profit maximization goal of commercial supply chains. In this paper, the authors develop a relief chain structure that accommodates emerging technologies in humanitarian logistics into the two phases of disaster management – the preparedness stage and the response stage. Findings Solving the model by the genetic and the cuckoo optimization algorithm (COA) and comparing the results with the ones obtained by The General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) clear that genetic algorithm overcomes other options as it has led to objective functions that are 1.6% and 24.1% better comparing to GAMS and COA, respectively. Originality/value Finally, the presented model has been solved with three methods including one exact method and two metaheuristic methods. Results of implementation show that Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) has better performance in finding the optimal solutions.

The Effects of the Applications of Blockchain Technology on the Logistics sector

Logistics is a combination of businesses involving various activities and processes which generate value by goods and services. Maintaining track of all transactions is a crucial task in logistics. Logistics 4.0 enables the optimum synchronization of activities inside corporate boundaries; if effective, logistical constraints resulting from industrial sender and receiver channels may be considerably alleviated. Blockchain paves the way for implementation of smart logistics. It served as storage for the transactions after distributed ledger technologies was implemented before the digital cryptocurrency a year ago. It is a decentralized system based on five essential principles: decentralization, P2P, transparency with privacy protection, and algorithmic logic. Some logistics companies are already employing block chain. This paper summarizes adoption of distributed ledger technology in logistics is being investigated. Furthermore, the strengths and weakness of blockchain in logistic industry were extracted from recent scientific literature for readers to overview the application of technology. It is reported that blockchain adoption provides immutability, data security, tracking, storage, dependability, and cost-effective alternatives in logistics industry. However, there are a few obstacles that prevent full-scale adaption by many logistics and transportation sectors, such as throughput, and latency constraints. Nodes aren’t monitored by centralized entity to notify security breach, so data security may be compromised. Furthermore, the blockchain is still in its infancy; there’s no single standard, theories are difficult to grasp, and even the most basic types of application need programmer assistance.Logistics is a combination of businesses involving various activities and processes which generate value by goods and services. Maintaining track of all transactions is a crucial task in logistics. Logistics 4.0 enables the optimum synchronization of activities inside corporate boundaries; if effective, logistical constraints resulting from industrial sender and receiver channels may be considerably alleviated. Blockchain paves the way for implementation of smart logistics. It served as storage for the transactions after distributed ledger technologies was implemented before the digital cryptocurrency a year ago. It is a decentralized system based on five essential principles: decentralization, P2P, transparency with privacy protection, and algorithmic logic. Some logistics companies are already employing block chain. This paper summarizes adoption of distributed ledger technology in logistics is being investigated. Furthermore, the strengths and weakness of blockchain in logistic industry were extracted from recent scientific literature for readers to overview the application of technology. It is reported that blockchain adoption provides immutability, data security, tracking, storage, dependability, and cost-effective alternatives in logistics industry. However, there are a few obstacles that prevent full-scale adaption by many logistics and transportation sectors, such as throughput, and latency constraints. Nodes aren’t monitored by centralized entity to notify security breach, so data security may be compromised. Furthermore, the blockchain is still in its infancy; there’s no single standard, theories are difficult to grasp, and even the most basic types of application need programmer assistance.

The Effects of Logistics Technology Acceptance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Logistics Safety Performance: The Moderated Mediating Effect of Logistics Safety Behavior through Safety Culture

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Estimating economic losses from cyber-attacks on shipping ports: An optimization-based approach

The Maritime Transportation System (MTS) accounts for more than 80% of global merchandise trade in volume and roughly one-sixth of the Total Gross Output of the United States. Given that national and global economies depend upon efficient supply chains, port stakeholders must develop security plans to respond to all hazards, natural and manmade. Given recent cyber-attacks affecting shipping ports, along with the multi-billion dollar cyber insurance gap, ports need to understand the tradeoffs between increased competitiveness and higher risk through investment in automation and advanced logistics technologies. This article addresses the need to understand the economic impact of cyber-attacks that affect shipping port operations and thereby enable risk assessments that holistically evaluate interactions among port Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems. Using a Nearly-Orthogonal Latin Hypercube (NOLH) experimental design, we construct transportation disruption profiles based on actual cyber-attacks that specify the range of operational effects of IT/OT dependencies on stakeholder transportation assets. To capture the costs of the physical disruption, we extend Boland et al’s Dynamic Discretization Discovery (DDD) algorithm to capture capacity constraints and enable delay modeling to accommodate commodities arriving late due to disruption. Economic loss functions for seven commodity categories based on the willingness to pay literature are used to compute delay costs so that stakeholders can estimate the range of economic and operational impacts within a disruption profile. Results based on data for cyber-attacks on landlord port and terminal operator assets provided by Port Everglades, FL illustrate impacts at $80,000 and $1.2M on average during one week in October 2017 and at $141,000 and $2.8M for May 2017 respectively. The runtime performance of our enhanced DDD algorithm improves on the state of the art by an order of magnitude and on larger problem sizes based on real-world port networks.

Influence of Blockchain Technology in Manufacturing Supply Chain and Logistics

Background: Blockchain is a digitally managed, distributed, and decentralized ledger used to record transactions in an immutable format. Its characteristics in providing trust, transparency, and traceability make it attractive for applications where transactions are involved. Originally intended to support financial transactions, the technology has gained attention even in non-financial sectors such as health care, manufacturing, retail, and government services. Methods: For centuries, the various functions of manufacturing industries have worked based on the relationship and trust that they have with their upstream and downstream stakeholders. In addition, as the conventional factories are growing into giant gigafactories, the participation of several intermediaries further complicates the supply chain and logistics operations. Hence, the article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the role of blockchain technology in addressing supply chain and logistics-related challenges by analyzing, organizing, and reviewing the literature. Results: The study shows that blockchain technology can transform the supply chain and logistics into secure, agile, trusted, and transparent functions. A conceptualized application scenario demonstrates the benefits of blockchain technology in providing provenance and traceability to critical products. Conclusions: In particular, a private or permissioned blockchain is suitable for multi-organizational businesses such as supply chain and logistics. In addition, IoT-blockchain integration, smart contracts, and asset tracking has immense benefits in the future.

The main trends of digitalization in agriculture

Digitalization processes are currently being increasingly introduced into various sectors of the national economy, including the agricultural sector. Agriculture has traditionally been a costly industry and has always had large losses throughout the entire production process, which led to a decrease in production efficiency. Digitalization in agriculture is designed to solve the vast majority of these problems and significantly increase the profitability of the industry. Digitalization helps to cover the whole range of actions, automate processes, cover the fullness of information, bring it into a single system, process it promptly, clearly monitor all processes, significantly reduce the loss of resources of all kinds, completely eliminate the corruption component. Digitalization makes it possible to constantly monitor any process in crop production, animal husbandry, processing, logistics and prevent the development of some negative phenomena. Field monitoring involves monitoring the qualitative characteristics of soils and crops, crop rotation management, recommendations for crop rotation planning, helps to trace the entire cycle of work from planting to harvesting, including logistics. Since there are large losses of agricultural products in the process of moving products, it seems appropriate to use digital technologies in logistics, which should significantly increase production efficiency. Control of finished products involves accounting for the harvest (from field to weight), monitoring the progress of the harvesting campaign, the amount of harvest for each field separately, the production of each employee, accounting for the work of carriers.

Decision-Making under the Risk, Uncertainty and COVID-19 Pandemic Conditions Applying the PL9A Method of Logistics Planning—Case Study

The next industrial revolution, which coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, is prompting a different look at the issue of supply chain change management. A new perspective should take into account the aspect of supply chain efficiency at multiple levels. Efficient logistics is green and energy-saving, both of which need to be systematically integrated with the logistical planning processes. The dynamic changes on the demand and supply side resulting from social, political, and economic transformations have significantly influenced the shaping of long-term supply chains. The development of new manufacturing and logistics technologies prompts the development and implementation of new integrated planning methods to support supply chain management processes. Modern supply chains are oriented towards operations in a dynamically changing socio-economic environment. The new methods are capable of incorporating dynamic adaptation of logistics infrastructure which respond to changing relationships between supply and demand. To meet the identified problems of complexity, relevance, and time-consumption of the logistic planning process in modern enterprise management, the PL9A method of logistic planning and 9A LOGPLANNER application for logistics planning were developed. The article presents the results of experimental and simulation studies on the improvement of logistic processes in a working manufacturing enterprise with application of the PL9A method. The results of the experimental work indicate that the application of the PL9A method embedded in the 9A LOGPLANNER software makes it possible to dynamically simulate any number of logistics system variants in a short period of time, while reducing risk and obtaining tangible benefits in terms of energy and ecological efficiency.

DEVELOPMENT OF LOGISTIC POTENTIAL OF NATIONAL SUPPLY CHAINS FOR THE PURPOSE OF THEIR INTEGRATION INTO GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS

The article presents the list of development factors of the logistics potential of supply chains that have a direct and indirect impact on the components of the logistics potential both in the internal and external environment of the chain. As such development factors, were proposed: the introduction of new logistics technologies for the delivery of goods and storage of goods in warehouses, the active development of information systems and their implementation in the field of logistics and supply chain management, the development of the logistics services market, including integrated logistics support, resourcesaving policies of enterprises, increasing the importance of the environmental aspect of doing business in the framework of states' aspirations for sustainable development. The above factors will make it possible to determine the reserves for building up the logistics potential for national supply chains in order to integrate them into global supply chains.

Current Perspectives on Development of Industry 4.0 in Logistics of Machinery and Equipment Industry in Slovakia

Abstract The aim of the paper was to evaluate the current situation of Industry 4.0 in logistics in the machinery and equipment industry in Slovakia. The intention of the paper was to fill a research gap in the form of identification and analysis of the studied issue in the selected industry in Slovakia. The identification and analysis of the subject issue were conducted in 57 enterprises in the machinery and equipment industry in Slovakia. The results of the investigated issues were interpreted through descriptive and inferential statistics. The research instrument was a questionnaire, which involved a construction of several types of questions. The results of the testing showed that enterprises with different numbers of employees perceive, implement and use Industry 4.0 technologies in logistics. Also, based on the statistical hypothesis testing, it was confirmed that big data and the Internet of Things are the most used of the Industry 4.0 technologies in the selected logistics processes. The connection between Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0 will be an increasingly dominant theme as the Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a change that almost every enterprise in the world is going through or will go through.

Big Data and Data Mining Technologies Application at Road Transport Logistics

The article deals with the application of modern Big Data and Data Mining technologies in logistics. The analysis of studies related to Big Data and Data Mining in logistics has been carried out. The problems of collecting, analyzing and interpreting data on the workload of the transport system of the Moscow region are considered. The paper presents prospects for the application of the results for modern transport companies and government agencies in the planning of transport infrastructure construction.

Problems of using of digital technologies in logistics of sea cargo transportation along the Northern Sea Route

В научной статье представлены результаты анализа основных проблем международного использования Северного морского пути. Рассмотрены особенности развития Северного морского пути. Определена его практическая роль и место в развитии морской логистики Российской Федерации.