Quantitative Approaches to Distribution Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Published on 26. June 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 424 pages
978-3-540-43690-4 (ISBN)
Description
Increasing customer needs, the globalization of markets and the evolution of e-commerce add to the complexity of logistic processes. In today's business, it is well understood that an effective management of logistic processes is impossible without the use of computer-based tools and quantitative methods. This book presents in a systematic way quantitative approaches to distribution logistics and supply chain management. The main orientation of the book is towards practical problem solving, and numerous case studies and practical applications are presented. The topics covered include: supply chain management, revers logistics, e-commerce, facility location and network planning, vehicle routing, warehousing, inventory control.
More details
Series
Edition
2002 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
36 s/w Abbildungen
XIV, 424 p. 36 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
663 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-43690-4 (9783540436904)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-56183-2
Schweitzer Classification
Content
1: Supply Chain Management.- Examining Supply Chains from Practice.- Valuing Time in Make-to-stock Manufacturing: Calculating the Limits of Time-based Competition.- Internal Pricing in Supply Chains.- 2: Reverse Logistics.- Closed-loop Supply Chains.- Extended Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains: Optimising Economic, Logistic and Environment al Performance.- A Behavioral Approach for Logistics System Analy sis and Design: A Reverse Logisti cs Case.- Performance of MRP in Product Recovery Systems with Demand, Return and Leadtime Uncertainties.- One and Two Way Packaging in the Dairy Sector.- 3: Distribution Logistics and E-Commerce.- The Logistics Behind the Enter Click.- Distribution Planning with Specific Delivery Time Restrictions for the Handling of Electronic Customer Orders in Food/Non-Food Retail Trade.- An Analysis of a Combinatorial Auction.- 4: Warehouse Location and Network Planning.- The Practice of Distribution Network Planning: Coping with Shortcomings in Important Data Quality.- A Greedy Heuristic for a Three-level Multi-period Single-sourcing Problem.- Combinatorial Optimisation Problems of the Assignment Type and a Partitioning Apprach.- 5: Vehicle Routing and Transportation.- The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Simultaneous Pick-up and Delivery.- The Application of a Vehicle Routing Model to a Waste Collection Problem: Two Case Studies.- Strategic Vehicle Routing Problems in Practice - A pure Software Problem or a Problem Requiring Scientific Advice? Routing Problems of Daily Deliveries to the Same Customers.- 6: Warehousing.- Design of a 2-Stations Automated Guided Vehicle System.- On-line versus Off-line Control with Multi-load Vehicles.- 7: Inventory Control.- Average Costs versus Net Present Value: A Comparison forMulti-source Inventory Models.- Safety Stocks in Capacity-constrained Production Systems.- Approximations for the Waiting Time in (8, nQ)-Inventory Models for Different Types of Consolidation Policies.- List of Contributors.