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In order to present a feasible evaluation system for logistics centre design and help the actual project decision, this paper established a quantitative and multi-level evaluation indices system of logistics center designs, created a combination evaluation model based on hierarchical structure, used efficacy coefficient method to standardize the indices values of different dimensions, adopted the subjective and objective integrated method of weighting coefficient, and provided an evaluation model solving method of from-bottom-to-top. At last, an actual project was showed as example to interpret the feasibility of the methods above, which obtain a good expected effect.

Relationship of eigenvalue between MPSD iterative matrix and Jacobi iterative matrix for block p-cyclic case is obtained. The results in corresponding references are improved and perfected.

Product quality control and management has been so different in supply chain environment. Companies should control not only their own products but also the products and the factors that influenced the products from their supplier. In this paper, control charts and process capability analysis will be used for the management of supplier quality control to help the supplier reach the needed quality level. The method in this paper has already been used in some medical equipment company, and we achieved the expected goals, so the method is effective and valuable for most companies.

With the RFID technology applied to warehouse management to enhance the efficiency of warehousing operations, the operator can collect material information flexibly and easily. Different RFID management software communicates with the hardware more or less in the same way. Through the development of reusable middleware communicating between hardware and software and packing it with storage operations, a package of storage middleware is established. The storage middleware can reduce the complexity of the development of RFID management software, thereby simplifying the storage business processes. In this paper, the work process and the application in warehousing operation of the storage middleware will be introduced.

Pick-to-light has been applied in logistics to support goods picking. Usually, the equipment supplier provides the goods application to the users. But with the development of the user business, the system will be required to be adjusted to meet the needs of the new goods pick work flow, especially to support multi ways of goods picking. This paper studied the low level communication between pick-to-light and monitor workstation, and developed a set of middleware to meet the pick-to-light picking system modification. The middleware is developed with Java language, and can be reused freely. With the middleware, the programmer can develop the pick system according to the adjustment of goods pick work flow. It is very convenient for logistics enterprises and education organizations to construct the goods picking system based on pick-to-light.

RFID has been applied in many industries, especially in logistics. Usually, RFID is used as an identification that replaces barcode or combined with barcode. RFID has many advantages, for example, it can be read fast and improves the efficiency of data gathering. This paper introduces a RFID application system in warehouse management that is used to identify cargo when inbound and outbound. Based on Java language, this paper develops low level communication functions, which can implement the communication between monitoring computer and RFID reader. The cargo inbound and outbound business procedures are designed to show the RFID application in logistics warehouse operation.

Increased competition in the transport market has led to more focus on enterprise's logistics network. To build and improve the integration of logistics network is regarded as the key way to improve supply chain efficiency. This paper firstly focuses on the hub-and-spoke network structure which is widely used in road freight transport system, and by taking into account the restriction of sole service characteristics and service capacity limit, puts forward a hybrid hub-and-spoke network structure to optimize the road freight transport network; then, the paper sets up the total cost model of the network and carries on scientific quantization to every combination of the cost through exhaustive analysis to the cost; lastly, the paper introduces a (0,1) optimization mathematics model to optimize the transit lines based on the lowest total cost of hybrid hub-and-spoke network structure. A practical application to a third-party logistics provider is also described.

Pallet pooling system establishes a considerable number of pallet recycling stations throughout the country to recycle and maintain the pallets. The main advantages of the pallet pooling system are greatly improving the logistics efficiency by achieving pallet through transport, reducing the total number of social pallets by renting the pallets and can reduce the cost of the international logistics. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is one of the automatic identification technologies. RFID utilizes the non-contact data exchange to identify the object, which has many advantages such as rapid identification, wear-free, out of the environmental impact, long life, etc. RFID has been developing quickly at home and abroad, which has been widely used in many fields such as industrial automation, commercial automation, control and management of transport. In this paper, the author describes how to use RFID technology on pallets for information management in pallet rental system. Firstly, the author introduces orderly what pallet rental system is, why we need to establish pallet rental system, how to establish such a system, why we should make use of RFID technology and how to use RFID technology in the pallet rental information system; Secondly, the author makes an analysis on the overall structure of the system, information flow and business process in the pallet rental system; Finally the author gives an application of pallet rental information system based on RFID.

Because of the special environment and the risk of accident in the coal mine, some of the major problems that concern the people are the safety production, managing and rescuing workers under the mine. To solve these problems, this paper brings out the Underground Personnel Position System with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification technology). RFID is a new wireless communication technology and widely applied in other industry. The technology can be used to automatically identify the information of the workers, locate their positions on time and record their tracks, which can improve the information management level of the coal mine greatly and provide the necessary information for management and rescuing. In addition, GIS is also used to provide a visual window to assist the Position System to make a more convenient management on the workers' location. It is clear that the GIS-based Mine Safety Management Information System can absolutely achieve a better impact with the seamless link of spatial data whose format is called SHP and some else property data. And the system can greatly improve the efficiency of the mine safety management.

Distribution center provides necessary logistics service for manufacturers and dealers, and the customers of the manufacturers or dealers usually change frequently. The new customers sometime require the bill of document modification, e.g. add a few information items or drop some items, but the logistics services do not changed, which means the information procedure need not been changed. The information system needs to be modified quickly to meet the need of this type of situation, which needs a lot of code programming work to update the system. This paper brings out a model to reduce the workload by reuse the information procedure program based on information items pool. The information items are separated from the information procedure program, and stored in information items pool XML files, the procedure program obtains the necessary information item message from the information items pool, when running. Only the web page and database are modified by update the information items pool when the system needs update, and the information procedure program need not any modification. This method improves the efficiency of the system development and maintenance by the code reuse.

Vehicle routing problem with soft time windows (VRPSTW) is represented as a multi-objective optimization problem which both considering the number of vehicles and the total cost (distance). We simultaneously propose an improved genetic algorithm to solve this problem. In this algorithm, we solve the multi-objective optimization problem by variation of fitness function. We are not only increase the search ability of the algorithm but also satisfied the requirement of population diversity by using the improved crossover operator. We add the local search algorithm to make complete for the deficiency of the weak ability. The experiment result states that the algorithm is efficient for VRPSTW and can provide the useful support to make a better decision of transport problems.