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A Cloud Computing Model for Optimization of Transport Logistics Process

Open Access
|Jun 2017

Abstract

In any increasing competitive environment and even in companies; we must adopt a good logistic chain management policy which is the main objective to increase the overall gain by maximizing profits and minimizing costs, including manufacturing costs such as: transaction, transport, storage, etc. In this paper, we propose a cloud platform of this chain logistic for decision support; in fact, this decision must be made to adopt new strategy for cost optimization, besides, the decision-maker must have knowledge on the consequences of this new strategy. Our proposed cloud computing platform has a multilayer structure; this later is contained from a set of web services to provide a link between applications using different technologies; to enable sending; and receiving data through protocols, which should be understandable by everyone. The chain logistic is a process-oriented business; it’s used to evaluate logistics process costs, to propose optimal solutions and to evaluate these solutions before their application. As a scenario, we have formulated the problem for the delivery process, and we have proposed a modified Bin-packing algorithm to improve vehicles loading.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ttj-2017-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1407-6179 | Journal ISSN: 1407-6160
Language: English
Page range: 194 - 206
Published on: Jun 27, 2017
Published by: Transport and Telecommunication Institute
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2017 Zineb Benotmane, Ghalem Belalem, Abdelkader Neki, published by Transport and Telecommunication Institute
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