In this paper, “Logistics Professional Community” is defined as the organized group with business people sharing a common sense and special capability in the business logistics. The value of “Logistics Professional Community” is (i) to solve the problem on the inter0organizaton view and (ii) to drive creative and practical solution by information interaction in this group. “Logistics Professional Community” will function effectively when equality and autonomy are maintained to the group.

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The transportation volume is increasing rapidly with diversification of global industrial activities such as the procurement, production, and sales.
So the container shipping companies have to enlarge the fleet. Consequently the M & A and re-organizations of the Alliance become active. Therefore, in order to consider the management of container shipping companies, the analysis of acquisition etc. is necessary.
In this study, we clarify the relationship between change of a fleet by acquisition, and diversification of an income or a profit. And based on these relationships, we analyze about the means of the allocation of ship in acquisition of Maersk Line.

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Some studies concluded that the deregulation in the Japanese trucking industry had made shippers' surplus larger. However, they did not mention where the shippers' surplus came from. We find that most of the shippers' surplus increase is transferred from the decrease of laborers' surplus and the decrease of trucking carriers' profit. Thus, the net social surplus has hardly increased.

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This paper aims at examining, from the perspectives of evolutionary economics, the elements of paradigm that logistics researchers and practioners alike have shared among them. First, the direction of deepening the logistics study as an established academic discipline is identified. Among others, the rationality of 'efficiency improvement' is questioned. It is pointed out that 'optimisation' concept is ambiguous and lacks rationality. Second, questions are made on the permanency of current paradigm such as 'lean stock', 'full utilisation of IT', 'value adding', integrated supply chain management' and 'outsourcing'. Finally, an overview is offered on the factors that can influence the future evolution of logistics paradigms; i.e. 'transportation capacity', 'logistics service market structure', 'global environmental protection' and the 'importance of dynamic approach'.

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A lot of entries continue to date, and the truck transport industry has been already beyond 60, 000 companies after the deregulation, 1990. The medium and small-sized enterprises are majority in the truck transport industry, and the major prime contractor entrust to the subcontractor frequently.
In this study, I clarified the actual situation of the business structure and the many stratifications of business in this industry and calculated it with the definition of the many stratifications index. In addition, I examined the influence that multilayered business gave a truck transport business from the viewpoint of merits and demerits.

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This paper focuses on problems of objectifying supply chains, and discusses meta-management in supply chains. Meta-management is a management of setting 'ba' for a management. On view of meta-management, this paper considers future deployments of SCM mainly based on interview researches. At first, this paper illuminates that there are three circumstance drivers of SCM, which are retailer's buying power strengthening, glocalization, environment-oriented SCM. Focusing on every separate driver, this paper discusses a possibility of SCM progress, and presents issues of meta-management and the findings.

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The supply chain management which consolidates the managerial functions of the enterprise like the procurement, the production and the sale between the different organizations is increasingly being recognized as the attempt to gain synergy effect and sustainable competitive advantage. This article investigates academically the essence of the relation between the organizations which construct the SCM, comparing the studies of the Ohio State University research group and ones of the Michigan State University research group, two schools which lead the American logistics research. Finally it also refers to the thinking of Japanese researchers.

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At the present time, New Financial Method “ABL Asset Based Lending” is introducing by METI Japanese Government for medium and small-sized businesses recently. It is finance to assume business earning assets (Inventory/Account Receivables/ machinery) that the company holds security. To carry out ABL, it is necessary to control inventory appropriately. METI expects Logistics Service Providers as important factors (for example, to provide solution by RFID) in the business model of Japanese ABL. In this study, I grasp the present conditions and point out problems and make a proposal to the future.

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It is becoming common that 3PL contract fee is decided by the % of product value, which passes thru the logistic-center, and profit control by the contractor is becoming difficult. This is a very much different from the traditional logistic cost factor. Also, this kind of simple and uniform contract fee, which covers all stages 3PL related business, causes a serious risk for the contractor.
Strictly speaking, they should make the contract based on Activity Based Costing (ABC), but they also need to have quick and easy assesment system which corresponds to the competition. So, this kind of changeable contract system needs to make their logistics business cost structure more flexible and various kinds of business improvement are requested.

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It is a pressing issue in the logistics field of the 21st century to promote efficiency improvement and cost reduction. This research aims at the development support system of the solution to logistics projects by the aspect of the cost calculation business centering on an overall design and the restructuring of the logistics system. The simulator that can judge the selection of the delivery planning and the logistics based on the cost calculation is constructed for trial purposes. This attempt is a first step of the system construction that will give cost-oriented reengineering of the logistics system.

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This paper aims to apply the some concepts in cooperative game theory in analyzing the Cooperative Freight Transportation System (COFT). It mainly involves : 1) Abstract some traits of cost function inside COFT and construct the relevant conceptual game. 2) Establish the profit allocation system for players and calculate the shares of different cases in three-person game. 3) Analyze stability of these cases on the shares. 4) Make clear the reasons of which cases' structures of three-person alliance are stable with the allocation way and provide advises for companies and public sectors. Through this paper, we hope to show a simple notional game of COFT, and propose an analysis ways of profit allocation as well as stability of different cases in this COFT game.

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The postal operator has been burdened with the Universal Service Obligation (USO) as the entity tasked with providing nationwide public service. Japan Post was privatized from its public corporation status to a private company as a result of the postal reform, whereas USO, which had been imposed on Japan Post, is principally succeeded to the new business unit. This paper firstly examines the concept of USO and then compares the postal USO in Japan with those in foreign services, aiming to provide future perspectives on a desirable USO.

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The adoption and use of EDI in the developing countries seems to be difficult. This paper attempts to propose the possible introductions steps of EDI in ports. To investigate this issue, analysis on the current trends of EDI in 14 countries are carried out and major developing countries in Asia are included in the study together with USA and two countries in Europe. First, 58 ports related EDI systems in 14 countries are extracted and these systems are distinguished by their version. The study examined the characteristics of each EDI system and three main categories are found such as organizations, functions and services. Next, cluster analysis has been used to find the groups and directions of introducing the EDI systems. Then quantification theory has been applied to the EDI systems in order to extract the trends, stages and the underlying factors in the introduction steps. Findings indicate that organizations, services and functions affect the introduction steps of the EDI systems in port.

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As for the Korean logistics policy, the character changed into “national growth strategy” than “the support policy of the manufacturing industry” since 2000's began. In this change process, “the certification system of integrated-logistics companies” that the government certified companies specialized in distribution to sponsor general logistics service, and support brought up was introduced.

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The regional flow in logistics is considered to largely relate to the industrial location. While the factor of industrial location includes transport cost factors and non-transport cost factors, non-transport cost factors such as land cost, labor cost and others have become more important than transport cost factors even in remote location, due to the decrease in transport cost. The changes in the relative significance between transport cost factors and non-transport cost factors have an influence on industrial location.

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Recently, Japanese auto manufacturers are trying to procure parts by milk-run at their foreign factories. Through a survey on Japanese auto manufacturers in Thailand, we find that they introduced milk-run in order to increase efficiency of logistics at first stage and that they build and are now operating milk-run as more frequent and accurate procurement system for smaller lot synchronizing with manufacturing process to decrease inventories. We also clarify that auto manufacturers control procurement process, calculate costs of logistics accurately, and try to involve suppliers into continuous improvement (kaizen) by introducing milk-run system.

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Revised Law Concerning the Rational Use of Energy has been enacted and gone into effect. It has required companies to measure their output of CO₂ from transportation. In this law, there are three measurements for CO₂ emission and each of them has different characteristics.
The purpose of this study is to clarify each characteristic of these measurements by the sensitivity analysis.

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When the loading/unloading space is inefficient, we take delivery logistics measures. But, delivery logistics measures are rarely considered in the existing formulas for estimating loading/unloading space. Delivery logistics measures have some significant effects on the factors of the formula. Thus, this paper clarifies the effects of the delivery logistics measures and addresses an estimation formula according to existing data.

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Most of big Japanese retailers operate their own Distribution Center, so called DC to minimize the outstock level in the shelf of store. We calculated the ideal stock level to attain the targeted outstock level using POS data. The gap between the ideal and observed stock level shows that stocks in shelf of store are sufficient not to have stocks in DC.

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The stock operation with less personnel expenses and more consumer satisfaction is an important subject in the retail stores. In this paper, we have selected the retail stores with backyard for study and have proposed an efficient interaction mechanism between store personnel and a stock data management system as well as the method of the optimum stock sharing with the selling place.

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Increased needs are identified in Japan to reduce environmental pollutions due to inter-regional cargo transport by the modal shift from truck use to railway and domestic maritime shipping uses. We analyze the cargo transport behaviors by using random parameter logit model, which is recently watched. The main database for this study is “The survey of cargo flow in 2000”. This data set contains disaggregated data of each shipper's commodity, volume, origin and destination, modes and routes, and ports, stations and facilities. This result indicates the time value of short-distance maritime transport users is higher than the environmentally friendly transport users' one, reflecting various consumers' needs for logistics services. Moreover, lot size is an influential factor for the air transport users. The analysis of elasticity effects brings that the speed up of rail transport makes a contribution to modal shift by comparison with other transports and the port accessibility within Hokkaido is a bottleneck for the long-distance maritime transport usage.

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This paper investigates the mode choice characteristics of customers of supermarkets in Metro Manila. Based on the field survey made on several supermarket locations, mode choices are characterized according to several purchase and trip characteristics. It clarifies how goods sizes, travel time, age, trip frequency, and other factors affect mode preference of customers.

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The logistics in a city is bearing the important role supporting the consumption activities needed, when people do city life, and in a current city, the logistics is established as an important indispensable lifeline. However, in the city, consideration to a logistics is not made almost, but the logistics is checked by various factors. In this research, the factor which has checked carrying out smoothly of the city logistics was extracted, and it analyzed about the effect that it affects the city logistics and the influence which it has on a city.

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It is demanded correspondence to the new delivery of goods service to plan differentiation with the other general merchandising store consistently from the logistics subsidiary where a parent company regards a major retail chain supplier as a customer by the customer. This paper analyzes such request contents from the characteristic, change contents, a correspondence problem. In addition, this paper chases reputation how to stop in the parent company for this needs and connection with the logistics subsidiary and research does cooperation with other companies in a main shaft by a countermeasure in the subsidiary based on these. On the basis of such actual situation analysis, task analysis suggests a viewpoint for future logistics market advancement in how to work on of all companies.

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Middle and small-scale harbors as well as large-scale ports in China as Shanghai port and Shenzhen port are threatening the Busan port, growing up rapidly recently. Specially, growth of the central port in North China, main transshipment network object area of Busan port, is expected to be connected with the decrease of transshipment freight of Busan port. The competition among ports is expected to rise more and in this competitive system, early revitalization of Busan new port is bringing more important problem into relief. In the development business of Busan new port which is becoming propelled as a national-policy business to realize a distribution-centered nation of Northeast Asia, specially, because a development business of the distribution behind a harbor prescribes the creation of value added through the function of distribution port and the inducement of multinational distribution enterprise connected with the port industry as a target, the importance is becoming brought into relief and the expansion business of the distribution center behind is necessary above all to come to the ready for the conditions change of international distribution port and to strengthen a synergy effect through support for a port and accumulation of industry related to a port.

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This study is movement equipment of the new type which moves using between wall surface in the rise. The movement equipment which moves wall surface does vertical movement of wall surface, while the cage in between wall surface is generally wound up by rope and chain. The movement equipment of this study is retained between wall surface by the self-help, and transmits and goes up between wall surface. In this paper, the result is described, because the experimental result was reported, because the rise movement experiment was carried out by the production of movement equipment, and because the experimental result was examined.

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Focusing on SCM system design, this study clarifies how the differences in the production systems and the purposes of the SCM relate to the necessary management elements for the realization of SCM. Although this might been discussed, the numerical analysis has not been reported enough. The purpose of this study is as follows. By the survey results for Japanese companies in China, a model is proposed. The model is a multi-stage structure model which shows the relations between management elements for designing SCM system. In this first report, in particular, a method of the modeling is proposed. The analysis results will be reported after the survey is completed in a couple of month.

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Since May 1^st 2005, the national classification and evaluation standard of China logistic corporations has been put in practice. Based on this standard, many logistics corporations were valuated and classified. As a result, the name list of A class logistics corporation had been issued by CELP during four period from July, 2005 to March, 2007.In this paper, 10 stated owned corporations classified into 5 A, the highest class, were picked up from 172 A class corporations issued in that name list for characteristics studying. Besides, some of them were taken into example and according to the analysis of their characteristics, business scale and scope, the developing situation and prospect of China logistics corporations were discussed.

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This study is made on corporate realignment strategies of integrators (Deutsche Post, UPS, Fedex and TNT) and forwarding companies (Keuhne &Nagel and Schenker) in the global logistics market and their financial result since 2000 to 2007. Availability of their strategies is also evaluated.

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Changhong is a representative Chinese home appliance enterprise; it succeeded in transforming from the former state-run military-radar factory into one of China's leading consumer-electronics manufacturer. However it has been experiencing setbacks since 1998 and reported significant losses in 2004. This paper reports Changhong's problems and recent efforts in implementing logistical system. It shows Changhong is trying to use logistics and supply chain management side by side as competitive business weapons. And it concluded that the logistical system reform acts as a lever for Changhong's transformation.

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