Title: Site-selection method of agricultural products logistics distribution centre based on blockchain

Authors: Xingui Liu; Ming Luo

Addresses: HuaiHua Vocational and Technical College, HuaiHua 418000, China ' HuaiHua Vocational and Technical College, HuaiHua 418000, China

Abstract: In order to overcome the problems of low on-time delivery rate and high distribution cost existing in the existing location methods of agricultural products logistics distribution centre, this paper proposes a new location method of agricultural products logistics distribution centre based on blockchain. Based on the analysis of the basic problems affecting the location of agricultural products logistics distribution centre, combined with the blockchain technology, the location model of agricultural products logistics distribution centre based on input-output ratio was constructed. Combining the idea of mountain climbing algorithm and particle swarm optimisation algorithm, the hybrid particle algorithm is used to solve the location model of agricultural products' logistics distribution centre, and the optimal location scheme is obtained. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the on-time delivery rate, customer satisfaction, and reduce the logistics distribution costs. The maximum on-time delivery rate is 97.4%.

Keywords: blockchain; agricultural products; logistics distribution centre; site-selection method; hybrid particle swarm optimisation algorithm.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2023.127673

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2023 Vol.22 No.1, pp.15 - 31

Received: 05 Aug 2020
Accepted: 28 Dec 2020
Published online: 14 Dec 2022 *