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A Study on the Efficiency of Logistics Systems through the Operation of a Freight Car Sharing Information System among Companies (화물차 공유를 통한 물류효율화 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Byeong-Chan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.197-205
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    • 2014
  • This study set out to develop a logistics rationalization model to reduce logistics costs including return route costs by using open information systems that overcame the limitations of the old closed logistics systems by the corporations and applying the principle of freight car sharing among them. In recent years, information infrastructure that can be easily shared by many such as information networks, however, One of the causes of rising logistics costs is high empty transfer rates on return routes after goods are transported from the distribution center of each company to consumption sites, It is propose to promote logistic efficiency and innovation. The study especially identified a logistics rationalization plan by examining and analyzing the stages of transportation on the circulation route of a distribution system from the distribution center of a corporation to consumption sites and the empty transfer rates and their current state.