Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Mohsen Shirani and Vafa Hosseini Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 104 ISBN: 9783847327769
Описание
Increasing the role of logistics in business area due to globalization in production and consumption market, and competition pressure to cut costs and offer on time, reliable and affordable services, make transportation role more fundamental in business strategy. In this respect, consideration to have more efficient transportation and higher utilization of transport capacity leads to focusing on filling rate measurement as an efficiency measurement system in decision making process. The purpose of this study is to investigate different ways of measuring fill rate in road freight transport and evaluating them. To achieve this purpose, previous studies on role of filling rate in efficiency measurement systems, factors affecting filling rate, and different methods for its calculation have been studied. To get more practical data interviews have been performed with leading companies in logistics industry as well as scholar specialists in academic area. The outcome of the study is an...
