This paper discusses how to integrate forward and reverse logistics to decrease the total cost of third party logistics service providers. A mathematic model is provided without the assumption of straight-line distance. Product demand and return amount can vary randomly. Then we develop a Genetic Algorithm to solve this NP-hard problem and discuss its convergence. At last an example is available.
Integrated Networks of Third Party Logistics Service Providers
First International Conference on Transportation Engineering ; 2007 ; Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
2007-07-09
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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