Combinatorial optimization design and operating management mechanisms for logistics supply chain management

For improved competitiveness, many modern firms have embraced the supply chain management to increase organizational effectiveness and achieve such organizational goals as improved customer value, better utilization of resources, and increased profitability. One main issue of logistics supply chain management is to find suitable optimized design mechanisms when a corporation decides to open and operate its warehouses and cross-docks and expend huge financial sums to open its best set of cross-docks and warehouses, the other main issue of logistics supply chain management is the effective operating management of the logistical supply chain processes that are controlled by various independent companies in order to achieve overall minimal cost after the corporation had opened and operated its warehouses and cross-docks. Suitable combinatorial optimized logistics supply chain design mechanisms and effective operating management method are considered for the problems of the logistics supply chain management in this paper.