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Modern logistics is widely regarded as the “Third Profit Wellhead” by reducing the consumption of materials and improving productivity. Effective logistics distribution system is the base of enterprise developing quickly because the company is surviving and developing with intense competition which depends on Quick Response, product quality, standard of service, and serving cost to meet the need of market. In order to improve the customer satisfaction and to reduce operation cost of ZQ ceramic company, which was analyzed each link and its character systematically and resolved the problems in network design for logistics distribution system. With using integer programming method, it designed network plan to aiming at collaborative logistics operation efficiently and effectively.

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The research is sponsored by State Natural Sciences Fund: Research on Organization and Optimization of SMPEs’ operation System Adapting to the Complex Demand. The research is also sponsored by Enterprise Fund: In the Pearl River Delta logistics distribution system optimization of Zhongqi ceramic company, the number is 120104.

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Lin, Hs. (2013). Optimizing Logistics System of ZQ Ceramic. In: Qi, E., Shen, J., Dou, R. (eds) International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2012) Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38445-5_112

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