These filters are: accessibility to a transshipment terminal, transport-mode dependent break-even distances, product type characteristics, shipment size and transport speed requirements.
It has not verified the ingredients, has not checked the site of manufacture, has not reviewed the chain of custody, and will not comment on the "identity, safety, effectiveness, purity, or any other characteristics" of the shipment.
Time to discard was estimated and compared with mean kinetic temperature exposure of the devices during the shipment and storage phases and with characteristics of the storage locations using Weibull regression models.
Characteristics of commodities (e.g., shipment size) and costs are the crucial variables that influence the utilization of logistics hubs in the model.
Costs that emerge at these hubs (e.g., intermediate handling, inventory, deterioration, damage and ordering or stock out costs) – based on hub characteristics – influence the total costs of the different shipment types [33].
In this manner, the characteristics of hubs in combination with the characteristics of shipments determine the utilization and impact of hubs or transport demand respectively.
Due to the characteristics of hubs there are often limits in handling certain shipments.
Another aspect of integrating logistics hubs into modelling is the inclusion of further hub characteristics that excess the characteristics mentioned above (capability of handling certain shipments).
The clustering process is based on certain characteristics of the product (e.g., value of goods, packing density, perishability, delivery time, shipment size etc).
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