Title : 
The Analytic Hierarchy Process Method for Integrate Distribution Issue of Agricultural Products Logistics
         
        
            Author : 
Bao, Wenjie ; Wu, Zhongyuan
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Manage., Tianjin Polytech. Univ., Tianjin, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In order to facilitate the selection of appropriate types of vehicles for target agricultural products, to enhance distribution efficiency, to cut down distribution costs, and to achieve scale economy in distribution, better utilizing both the value and use value of agricultural products, this thesis pays due attention to the features of integrated transportation of agricultural products and the differences in the features of economy, convenience, safety and social profits of vehicles of different specifications, employs the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to form the evaluation system, and establishes the structural mode of integrated transportation of agricultural products. In the end, it tests the feasibility of the analysis of the integrated transportation of agricultural products based on AHP method with the case study of certain part of a logistics company.
         
        
            Keywords : 
agricultural products; cost reduction; decision making; distribution strategy; industrial economics; logistics; profitability; transportation; AHP method; agricultural product logistics; analytic hierarchy process method; distribution costs; distribution efficiency; integrate distribution issue; scale economy; social profits; Accidents; Agricultural products; Economics; Indexes; Logistics; Vehicles; AHP; Agricultural Products Logistics; Integrate distribution;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Information Technology, Computer Engineering and Management Sciences (ICM), 2011 International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Nanjing, Jiangsu
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-1419-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICM.2011.72