Smart box-enabled product–service system for cloud logistics

Abstract

Smart box enabled product-service system for cloud logistics Modern logistics takes significant progress and rapid developments with the prosperity of E-commerce, particularly in China. Typical challenges that logistics industry is facing now are composed by a lack of sharing, standard, cost-effective and environmental package, and efficient optimization method for logistics tasks distribution. As a result, it is difficult to implement green, sustainable logistics services. Three important technologies, Physical Internet (PI), Product Service System (PSS) and cloud computing (CC), are adopted and developed to address the above issues. PI is extended to design a world-standard green recyclable smart box that is used to encapsulate goods. Smart box enabled product service system is constructed to provide an innovative sustainable green logistics service, and high-quality packaging, as well as reduce logistics cost and environmental pollution. A real-time information driven logistics tasks optimization method is constructed by designing a cloud logistics platform based on cloud computing. On this platform, a hierarchical tree-structure network for customer orders is built up to achieve the order-box matching of function. Then, a distance clustering analysis algorithm is presented to group and form the optimal clustering results for all customer orders, and a real-time information driven optimization method for logistics orders is proposed to minimize the unused volume of containers. Finally, a case study is simulated to demonstrate the efficiency and feasibility of proposed cloud logistics optimization method.

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