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Procurement logistics stands out as one of the basic sectors in a logistics company. The other sectors in a company depend on procurement as it can cause downtime and delays that affect the entire company. In addition to the impact on the company itself, procurement can also have an impact on end-users, given that efficient procurement is one of the factors of competitiveness. One of the basic tasks of procurement logistics is the selection of suppliers. For this reason, the aim of this paper was to propose approaches based on AHP-QFD and ANP-QFD methodology in order to select suppliers. On that occasion, the evaluation of three suppliers was performed by applying eight criteria (price, product quality, on-time delivery, location, communication, reliability, flexibility, and reputation). The results of the application of the described methodologies also showed a different ranking of suppliers depending on the chosen methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number and spatial dispersion of households and their resources (means of transport, storage space, human resources, etc.), a large number of daily trips of various motives (shopping, work, school, tourism, waste disposal, etc.), makes households important participants in logistics chains. Moreover, these features make them potentially very important providers of logistics services of delivery, storage, waste collection, etc., both for other households and for companies. The use of logistics services, resources of households, i.e. individuals, known as crowd logistics, is experiencing rapid development with the advent of numerous networks and applications, through which users connect with each other and get the opportunity to state and accept requests for logistics tasks. In this paper, the role of households in the performance of logistics demands of other households and companies is analyzed and the basic crowd logistics services are structured, with special reference to the services in the last mile of the supply chain. Also, the basic benefits were identified, as well as the disadvantages, problems and challenges in the application of this concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tourism has been developing intensively in recent decades due to various social and economic trends. Rural tourism, which includes various tourist activities in rural areas (tourism in households, ecotourism, recreational, adventure, sports, health, artistic, heritage tourism, etc.) is also gaining in importance. The main instrument for the efficient realization of flows of people, goods and information in the Rural Tourism Supply Chain (RTSC) and increasing the competitiveness of tourism products is logistics. Logistics provides a material and a nonmaterial basis for rural tourism services. As suppliers of raw materials and finished products to other actors, but also as creators of their own tourism offer, households are significant actors in the supply chain and generators of logistics flows in rural tourism. A specific form of rural tourism related to households and agricultural production is called agritourism. This paper analyzes the critical issues and structure of the RTSC, structure the logistics of agritourism and analyzing particular areas in terms of logistics flows, processes, and activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Growing competition in the global market imposes the need for proper planning of logistics processes and development of logistics networks, where logistics centers (LCs) as nodes in these network play a key role. LCs can have different structures defined by various elements characteristics, and accordingly different efficiencies. In order to identify those that would represent benchmarks for other LCs it is necessary to define the broadest set of possible structures. However, in practice a number of structures is limited, which doesn't mean there might not be some which would be competitive or more efficient than the existing ones. Therefore the goal of this paper is the modeling of potential LC structures, based on the identified dependencies between the elements characteristics and the existing structures' efficiencies. The model is tested in a case study of modeling a potential intermodal terminal structure as one of the possible LC forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ranking of the logistics system scenarios of the Central Business District (CBD) of the city is performed in this article using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model which combined the methods of fuzzy "Analytical Hierarchy Process" (FAHP) and "Višekriterijumska Optimizacija i kompromisno Rešenje" (VIKOR). FAHP is applied for obtaining the weights of the criteria defined on the basis of conflicting goals of different stakeholders, and VIKOR method is applied for obtaining the final ranking of the logistics system scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freight transport and logistics play a key role in economic and social terms by ensuring the competitiveness, economic growth and employment. Intermodal transport has received an increased attention due to problems of road congestion, environmental concerns and traffic safety. Strategic importance of speed, reliability and flexibility in the supply chain is forcing companies to re-examine traditional logistics services. As a result, interest in addressing the problem of intermodal transport and logistics is growing. In order to improve efficiency and sustainability of freight transport in Europe, the European Commission has launched a series of initiatives, projects and has defined the basic directions of development of intermodal transport and logistics. The paper presents the recommendations and measures for the further development of intermodal transport and logistics in Serbia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]