Optimal planning of liquefied natural gas deliveries

We investigate the problem of designing an optimal annual delivery plan for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). This problem requires determining the long-term cargo delivery dates and the assignment of vessels to the cargoes while accommodating several constraints, including berth availability, liquefaction terminal inventory, planned maintenance, and bunkering requirements. We describe a novel mixed-integer programming formulation that captures important industry requirements and constraints with the objective of minimizing the vessel fleet size. A peculiar property of the proposed formulation is that it includes a polynomial number of variables and constraints and is, in our experience, computationally tractable for large problem instances using a commercial solver. Extensive computational runs demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed model for real instances provided by a major energy company that involve up to 118 cargoes and a 373-day planning horizon.     

基于遗传算法的企业间协同制造战略伙伴选择的方法

协同制造是一种能够实现快速响应市场的生产模式,该生产模式已经成为21世纪制造业发展的必然趋势．为了实现当前制造环境下制造资源共享与优化配置,描述了企业间协同制造的基本概念,提出了协同制造任务的分配和资源发现,分析了协同制造的策略与运行模式及战略伙伴的选择,比较了几种算法的优缺点,给出了应用实例,用遗传算法对事例进行了论证并对事例进行了优化,得出了可行性的结论．     

物流的转型--供应链管理

与物流相比,供应链管理更能够给企业带来巨大的经济效益。因此,对供应链管理的进一步研究具有现实的意义。     

供应链企业在各种关系下的价格折扣方案设计

供应链企业间的关系管理是供应链管理的重点,而价格折扣是供应链企业间最常用的关系协调机制。文中用一个有一个供应商与多个经销商的供应链,假定了四种特殊关系,即：（1）横向（经销商之间）、纵向（与供应商）不合作;（2）横向不合作,纵向合作;（3）横向合作,纵向不合作;（4）横向合作,纵向合作。针对供应链企业之间的各种关系设计不同的价格折扣方案以满足供应链企业的利益最大化;对各种关系下的价格折扣方案进行比较,得到了不同关系下价格折扣率的取值范围。     

Situation analysis forecasting: the case of European maritime clusters

Within the literature concerned with aspects of competitiveness, innovation and strategic management of industrial clusters, the body regarding forecasting of strategic management is still nascent. This work aspires to render a contribution within the domain of strategic management forecasting, through the indicative case of European maritime clusters. For this end, a two-tier model is formulated. A quantitative strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) methodology that derives from the fusion of a quondam situation analysis and crosstabs’ theory is generated. This leads to the utilization of the crosstab’s conditional probabilities as transition probabilities; the latter are called to compile the transition matrix of a Markov chain. Through this methodology, and the successive Markov chain’s transition matrices, strategic forecasts are extracted for a devised European maritime cluster case. This work relinquishes a novel application with respect to strategic management forecasting, that provides a dichotomy of practical interpretations and scenarios for quantitative situation analysis. Thus, it may enable effective real-time decision-making for strategic management and/or policy drafting. The situation analysis forecasting model may find applicability in a plethora of practical and theoretical cases, wherein forecasting may be desirable. It may as well pertain to an intrinsic methodology for situation analysis forecasting of maritime clusters.     

趸船内八锚锚链受力分析

针对码头结构设计规范中关于内八锚及地牛受力计算的规定不明确的问题,参考水下锚链计算推导过程,根据静力平衡分析,列出悬链平衡方程,求解得出内八锚锚链悬链线标准方程,并通过曲线积分得到悬链线长度的计算公式。考虑到内八锚锚链在岸坡上拖锚的特殊情况,引入岸坡出坡点处斜率k,采用静力分析方法,得出锚链最大拉力、地牛拉力的计算公式。结果表明,锚链悬空段最大拉力出现在岸坡出坡点处,锚链最大拉力出现在地牛处。研究成果可为类似工程提供参考。     

Critical success factors of supply chain integration in container shipping: an application of resource-based view theory

ABSTRACT

The container shipping industry is receiving growing attention in driving the performance of global supply chains. This phenomenon has accelerated supply chain integration (SCI) within the industry. Although SCI could offer numerous benefits, it is often quoted to be implemented easier in theory than in practice. The high failure rate that is associated with SCI is often not addressed in the literature. Grounded on resource-based view (RBV) theory, this paper is aimed at identifying the critical success factors (CSFs) and examining their influence on SCI and supply chain performance (SCP). Survey questionnaires were administered on 164 container shipping firms. The constructs were validated empirically using confirmatory factor analysis and were subsequently analysed using structural equation modelling. The proposed CSFs in this study are found to be positively corelated with SCI, which, in turn, is positively correlated with SCP. This paper has contributed to both theory and practice by applying RBV theory to identify the key resources and capabilities that are necessary for SCI in the container shipping industry.     

汽车行业供应链中成员协作信任与冲突研究

我国汽车行业正处于创建自主品牌,从传统的供应链向电子化、信息化、同步化转型 过程中,信任与冲突是汽车供应链协同整合的关键因素.针对汽车行业供应链特性及发展趋 势,构建了基于契约信任、知识信任、信誉信任的跨组织信任协调机制,并构建了汽车行业 供应链成员协作信任机制与关系、流程、任务3种冲突的关系模型,研究了不同协作类型供 应链的信任与冲突,指出信息与知识共享是我国汽车行业供应链转型建立信任、解决冲突的 必要措施.     

整车试制阶段的电器故障诊断方法

以整车装车与跑车验证案例为背景，讨论汽车开发过程中汽车电器故障诊断的方法，阐述如何应用零部件置换原则来分析故障的重要性等级（significance）。     

提升我国物流业竞争力的基本要素与条件

以波特的国家竞争优势理论为框架,概括了物流业提升竞争力的基本要素和条件,包括,生产要素、市场需求、相关支持产业和企业自身的能力;阐述了市场经济制度环境条件,以及企业把握市场机会,依据核心竞争力和资源配置优势制定可持续的竞争战略的重要性。分析了国内物流服务市场的发展环境和趋势,以及世界制造中心向国内转移,给物流业发展所带来的机遇。