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Quantitative Approaches to Distribution Logistics and Supply Chain Management

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Andreas Klose

    1. University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

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  2. M. Gracia Speranza

    1. Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

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  3. Luk N. Wassenhove

    1. INSEAD, Fontainebleau Cedex, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 519)

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Supply Chain Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Examining Supply Chains from Practice

      • Iris F.A. Vis, Kees Jan Roodbergen
      Pages 3-18

    3. Valuing Time in Make-to-stock Manufacturing: Calculating the Limits of Time-based Competition

      • Joseph D. Blackburn
      Pages 19-35

    4. Internal Pricing in Supply Chains

      • Kenneth Fjell, Kurt Jørnsten
      Pages 37-43

  3. Reverse Logistics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Closed-loop Supply Chains

      • V. Daniel, R. Guide Jr., Luk N. Van Wassenhove
      Pages 47-60

    3. Extended Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains: Optimising Economic, Logistic and Environmental Performance

      • Harold Krikke, Costas P. Pappis, Giannis T. Tsoulfas, Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard
      Pages 61-74

    4. A Behavioral Approach for Logistics System Analysis and Design: A Reverse Logistics Case

      • Marco Mazzarino, Raffaele Pesenti, Walter Ukovich
      Pages 75-98

    5. Performance of MRP in Product Recovery Systems with Demand, Return and Leadtime Uncertainties

      • Christian Gotzel, Karl Inderfurth
      Pages 99-114

    6. One and Two Way Packaging in the Dairy Sector

      • Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Jo van Nunen, Jurriaan Vroom, Ad van der Linden, Annemarie Kraal
      Pages 115-127

  4. Distribution Logistics and E-Commerce

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. The Logistics Behind the Enter Click

      • René B.M. de Koster
      Pages 131-148

    3. Distribution Planning with Specific Delivery Time Restrictions for the Handling of Electronic Customer Orders in Food- / Non-Food Retail Trade

      • Joachim R. Daduna
      Pages 149-162

    4. An Analysis of a Combinatorial Auction

      • Mette Bjørndal, Kurt Jørnsten
      Pages 163-176

  5. Warehouse Location and Network Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. The Practice of Distribution Network Planning: Coping with Shortcomings in Import Data Quality

      • Angela Bauer
      Pages 179-189

    3. A Greedy Heuristic for a Three-level Multi-period Single-sourcing Problem

      • H. Edwin Romeijn, Dolores Romero
      Pages 191-214

    4. Combinatorial Optimisation Problems of the Assignment Type and a Partitioning Approach

      • Andreas Klose, Andreas Drexl
      Pages 215-245

  6. Vehicle Routing and Transportation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Andreas Klose

  • Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    M. Gracia Speranza

  • INSEAD, Fontainebleau Cedex, France

    Luk N. Wassenhove

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