Abstract

This study aims to investigate the rescheduling model for agricultural food products management in cross-border electronic commerce using logistic chain theory. Agricultural products chain scheduling in cross-border electronic commerce manages and controls the project progress through critical chain identification and buffer insertion but suffers from left-extension problem. To solve this issue, a new rescheduling model for agricultural food products management in cross-border electronic commerce using logistic chain theory is proposed in this study. In the new rescheduling model, the critical logistic chain was adopted to reschedule the plan with left-extension. Then the influence factors in the chain were analyzed to evaluate their effects on the left-extension. By doings so, a reasonable rescheduling model was established for managing the agricultural products critical chain. Numerical validation has been carried out in this study to examine the performance of the proposed rescheduling model. The analysis results indicate that the proposed rescheduling model could solve the left-extension problem in the agricultural products critical chain and hence is useful for practical application in cross-border electronic commerce.

Keywords:

Agricultural food, cross-border electronic commerce, logistic chain, logistic chain,

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