Two Operation Modes in Coal Chemical Logistics: Comparison of Decentralized and Centralized Modes

摘要

With the development of Coal Chemical Industry in Ordos, the task of its transportation has instantly increased. Due to limited railway transportation capacities, transportation problem becomes the bottleneck of coal chemical industry in this place. The article attempts to help the coal chemical enterprises to choose an optimal storage and transport mode. In the paper, we first present two operation modes in logistics, centralized and decentralized operation modes separately, then compare quantitatively the two modes from coal chemical enterprises point of view, results show that centralized mode is better than the decentralized mode for coal chemical enterprises in cost.