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ABSTRACT
This study develops a multistate freight network for single and perishable merchandise to assess the freight performance, where a node denotes a supplier, a distribution centre, or a buyer, while a logistics company providing a freight traffic service is denoted by an edge. For each logistics company, carrying capacity should be multistate since partial capacity may be reserved by some customers. The merchandise may perish or be perished during conveyance because of disadvantageous weather or collision in carrying such that the number of intact cargoes may be insufficient for the buyers. Hence, according to the perspective of supply chain management, the reliability, a probability of the network to successfully deliver the cargoes from the suppliers to the buyers subject to a budget, is proposed to be a performance index, where the suppliers and buyers are not the previous customers. An algorithm in terms of minimal paths to assess the reliability is developed. A fruit logistics case is adopted to explore the managerial implications of the reliability using sensitivity analysis.
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Yi-Kuei Lin
Yi-Kuei Lin currently a chair professor of Industrial Management Department, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China. He received a bachelor degree in Applied Mathematics Department from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He obtained his master degree and Ph.D. degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at National TsingHua University, Taiwan, Republic of China. He had the honour to get the Outstanding Research Awards from National Science Council of Taiwan in 2008, 2010, and 2013, respectively. His research interests include performance evaluation, stochastic network reliability, operations research, and telecommunication management. He has published over 170 papers in refereed journals including European Journal of Operational Research; Computers and Operations Research; Reliability Engineering & System Safety; IEEE Transactions on Reliability; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part A: Systems and Humans; International Journal of Industrial Engineering; Computers and Mathematics with Applications; International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology; International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering; Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan; Mathematical and Computer Modelling; Computers and Industrial Engineering; and Applied Mathematics and Computation.
Cheng-Ta Yeh
Cheng-Ta Yeh is an assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Industrial Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan, in 2010. From August 2012 to January 2014, he was a postdoc in the Department of Industrial Management, NTUST. His research interests include supply chain management, system optimization, and decision analysis. At present, he has published 28 papers in several famous international journals.
Cheng-Fu Huang
Cheng-Fu Huang is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. He received his bachelor degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering from Feng Chia University, Taiwan, in 2004, master degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan, in 2006, and Ph.D. degree in the Department of Industrial Management in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2010. His research interests include stochastic network reliability, performance evaluation, and quality management.