• 품질경영학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.397-408
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• 2015

Purpose: Express mail service(EMS) supplied by 'Korea POST'is an international postal service which brings letters, documents and parcels to a destination abroad in the fastest and safest way. This service is in a tough competition with global companies such as TNT, FedEx, DHL or UPS. To build an effective strategy for being competitive, an intensive study on EMS service quality should be accomplished from a customer's perspective. Methods: Kano model and improvement gap analysis are used to categorize and prioritize EMS service quality attributes. A 5-point Lickert scale is employed to apply the Kano model and improvement gap analysis. Each quality attribute can be classified as weak in comparison with competitors, critical for improvement, or potentially competitive. Results: Price, on-time delivery and delivery quality are to be kept as is; fast delivery, parking convenience and staff expertise can be potentially competitive; and the other attributes are considered to be critical for improvement. Conclusions: Fast reimbursement and proper compensation when shipping items are lost or damaged are to be improved with high priority. Efforts to secure fast delivery, parking convenience and staff expertise are needed to be competitive in the future.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.10-17
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• 2023

Recently, robots have been actively utilized for logistics and delivery services in various places such as restaurants, hotels, and hospitals. In addition, it provides a safer environment, convenience, and cost efficiency to the customers. However, when it comes to autonomous delivery in a multi-floor environment, the task is still challenging. Especially for wheeled mobile robots, it is necessary to deal with elevators to perform the last-mile delivery services. Therefore, we present a multi-floor route planning algorithm that enables a wheeled mobile robot to traverse an elevator for the delivery service. In addition, an elevator boarding mission algorithm was developed to perceive the drivable region within the elevator and generate a feasible path that is collision-free. The algorithm was tested with real-world experiments and was demonstrated to perform autonomous postal delivery service in a multi-floor building. We concluded that our study could contribute to building a stable autonomous driving robot system for a multi-floor environment.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.125-147
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• 2011

현대산업사회에서 화물운송은 종래 대규모 완제품을 대량으로 운송하던 것과 달리, 소비자의 다양한 요구를 반영하여 여러 종류의 소규모 화물을 빈번하게 수송하는 것이 특징이라 할 수 있는데, 그러한 화물 운송업의 시류를 잘 반영하고 있는 것이 국제특송이라 할 것이다. 특히 해외 진출기업 및 유학생의 증가와 더불어 세계적인 한류 열풍, 해외 쇼핑몰을 통한 반입 물자의 증가 등으로 국제택배산업은 매년 10% 이상 성장하는 고성장산업이다. 국제특송에 관하여 현재까지 우리나라에서는 항공법에 '상업서류 송달업'으로 규정하여 근거규정을 두고 있었다. 하지만 동 규정에 대해 항공법과 연결되어 있는 우편법이 신서송달의 예외로 종전과 달리 '외국과 특급배달서비스를 이용하여 수발하는 서류'를 새롭게 추가하였으므로, 항공법상 상업서류 송달업에 관한 개정도 불가피한 상황에 놓이게 되었다. 항공법상 상업서류 송달업에 관한 규정을 개정하는 방안으로 항공법 특히 현재 제정안이 공포된 "항공사업법"상에 그 명칭을 변경하거나 문구를 수정하는 방안이 선행되어야 할 것이고, 이러한 근거규정의 정비와 별도로 당사자간의 권리와 의무, 사업자의 손해배상책임에 관한 새로운 입법을 모색하는 것이 바람직할 것으로 생각된다. 사견으로는 향후 택배관련 입법에 상업서류 송달업 즉, 국제특송업에 관한 내용을 추가하는 것을 제안한다. 국제특송업에 관한 입법에서는 먼저 국제특송업에 관한 개념 정의가 필요하다. 국제특송업은 운송주선적 측면과 운송적 측면을 동시에 가지고 있고, 필연적으로 육상과 항공의 복합운송이라는 점에서 독립적인 지위가 확인된다. 또한 국제특송 사업자의 손해배상책임에 관한 책임제한액과 관련하여, 현재 시행되고 있는 사업자의 약관은 대체적으로 항공운송인의 책임제한원칙을 가감없이 수용하고 있다. 항공운송이 전체 국제특송운송에서 필수적인 부분을 차지하는 점에서 이러한 책임원칙의 도입은 불가피할 것으로 보이나, 특송물품의 특성상 일반적인 항공화물과는 차이가 있어야 할 것이다. 사견으로는 송하인이 국제특송계약을 체결하는 시점에 추가 요금을 지급하고 별도의 보험에 가입함으로써 운송물의 손해발생 시에 고가의 손해배상금을 수령할 수 있는 제도를 활성화하는 것이 좋을 것으로 생각한다.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.1-28
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• 2004

The integrated supply chain of business partners for e-Commerce in cyber space is defined as Logistics Chain if the cooperative activities are logistics-related. Logistics Chain could be managed effectively and efficiently by cooperative technologies of logistics chain execution. In this paper, we propose a routing and scheduling algorithm based on the Tabu search by adding geographical information into existing constraint for pick-up and delivery process to minimize service time and cost in logistics chain. And, we also consider an uncertainty processing for the tracing of moving object to control pick-up and delivery vehicles based on GPS/GIS/ITS. Uncertainty processing is required to minimize amount of telecommunication and database on vehicles tracing. Finally, we describe the Logistics Chain Execution (LCE) system to perform plan and control activities for postal logistics chain. To evaluate practical effects of the routing and scheduling system, we perform a pretest for the performance of the tabu search algorithm. And then we compare our result with the result of the pick-up and delivery routing plan generated manually by postmen.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.113-118
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• 2010

"Domestic delivery service" is defined the service to deliver goods or packages from point of senders to point of receiver. With the characteristics of door to door, it is must a service provider should know the exact location of destination assuring best utilization of moving path. Generally, location information consist of postal code and address only, which result in difficulties to identify the precise location of destination. It is relatively less correlated between the information that address refers and practical location in Korea address system. For example, the next door to house number 100 is not always house number 101. Therefore, a delivery man additionally uses a paper map or a GPS navigation which carry extra job to input every code of location to the device in order to know precise location. It is also very inconvenient that every delivery man identify the location that address information refers and make a personal decision of the optimum moving path dropping each destination without calculating provisioning process of whole delivery path. As explained above, it is inefficient to find information delivery service required and to generate the optimum path. In results, these difficulties bring in delay of service and increase of cost. In this point, the contents of the thesis suggest a GPS navigation system easy to obtain accuracy of delivery information which enables to automate optimum moving path based on RFID which contains location information.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권8호
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• pp.1907-1920
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 새로이 재편될 우편 업무를 위한 통합 모델을 설계하였으며, 설계 단계는 다음과 같이 4단계로 나누어 진행하였다. 첫째, 기존의 우편 업무와 재편될 우편 업무를 수집, 운송, 배달 업무로 구분하여 분석하였고, 둘째, 통합 우면 모델 설계시에 적용할 몇 가지 기준을 개발하였으며, 셋째, 모델링 기준을 적용하여 우편 업무 단계별로 객체 지향 모델을 설계하였다. 마지막으로, 개발 모델에 적용되는 메소드를 분류하고 그 중 일부 메소드는 제약 조건과 트리거 개념을 적용한 능동 기반 메소드로 개발하였으며, 일부는 추론 기능을 지원하는 지식 기반 메소드로 개발하였다. 이와 같이 개발된 메소드는 각 정보의 속성값과 캡슐화되어 저장되어짐으로써 객체-능동-지식 기반 우편 업무 데이타베이스 모델을 형성한다. 마지막으로 개발 모델 동작 시나리오와 서비스 시나리오를 구성하여 실제 응용이 가능함을 보였다.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.681-686
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• 2024

우정사업은 우편, 예금, 보험 등 국민에게 공공 서비스를 제공하며 특히 우편업의 작업환경은 여전히 노동집약적으로 육체적 강도가 매우 높다. 우편 소통 현장에서는 상해사고 및 근골격계 질환 위험, 집배업무 직원의 경우는 이륜차 운행에 따른 교통사고 위험에 노출되어 있다. 이에 우정사업본부는 현장의 유해·위험요인을 개선하고자 안전보건 활동을 강화해 왔으며 지속적인 안전문화 확산 활동을 추진하고 있다. 하지만 이러한 활동이 소속기관 현장에 적용되었을 때 작동성 여부를 파악하기 어렵고, 안전사고 예방에 얼마나 효과적이었는지 객관적인 평가체계가 부족해 현재의 안전보건 수준과 사업장 안전보건에 관한 문제점을 파악할 수 없는 취약점을 가지고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서 우리는 공영우편업에 대한 안전수준을 효율적이고 객관적으로 평가할 수 있도록 우정사업에 적합한 평가체계 및 기준, 평가지표를 제안하기 위한 기초자료를 마련하고자 하였다. 즉, 공영우편업 특성을 분석하고 고려한 평가 지표개발의 근거를 마련하고자 하였으며 이를 통해 실효성 있는 수준 평가가 수행되고 기관별 안전보건관리의 문제점을 파악할 수 있을 것이다.

• 산업공학
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.435-446
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• 2011

Performance measures play a critical role in formulating mail delivery strategies and evaluating actual results. Nevertheless, the existing method and corresponding system to determine the standard workloads of mailmen is developed without careful consideration of real delivery environments and various requirements of mailmen. Hence, the current system is insufficient for optimal management of workloads and shows substantial gaps when compared to the results of actual work-site. This study considers how to improve the current workload management system of mailmen. We first performed the as-is analysis of the mail delivery service and then developed a prototype of advanced delivery workload management system. The to-be system consists of five subsystems which can be grouped into three categories; master data management, workloads management, performance analysis. Our results can be a valuable guide for the development of real system for measuring and balancing the workloads of mailmen.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제23권58호
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• pp.59-69
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• 2000

Development of digital information and internet technology causes the changes of technology environments and companies, and the variety of customer needs has been dynamically changed in terms of integrating information system with customer satisfaction. Moreover a new logistics concept is needed through the sharing information between suppliers and consumers, which maximizes the level of customers service and its flexibility by changing functional-oriented to process-oriented. In other words, Supply Chain Management (SCM) is now considered as a key aspect of business, which controls the flows of information, funds, and goods in the supply chain. Rationalization of transport-delivery system will be one of the most important issues on logistics management to the domestic companies. The companies need the effective delivery system. Especially in the case of delivery system from distribution centers to customers or vendors, it might take a long time to control the delivery system manually because it would be hard to apply the automatic vehicle routing algorithm effectively considering all the practical constraints. Thus this study develops a heuristic algorithm of automatic vehicle delivery support system in terms of grouping by short ranges of vehicle movement utilizing postal coordinates, which satisfies a variety of realistic constraints and reduces controlling time of manual operations. In addition, the performance of the algorithm developed in this study is evaluated through the case study.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2015

This paper suggests a procedure to define business process improvement (BPI) projects with analysis results based on the cause-and-effect chain. The procedure developed in this paper focuses on eliminating root causes of business problems resulted from abnormal events occurred in business process executions. First, we develop three criteria used to make clusters of the root causes where a cluster of root causes will be eliminated together by a BPI project defined based on the cluster. Second, we develop a method to formulate desired expectations from the BPI project. Also, we suggest a method to calculate the relative importance of the BPI projects that help a BPI organization determine priorities of them. We illustrate the procedure and the methods with some examples for the domestic mail delivery process in the postal service industry.