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The Management of Transshipment Terminals

Decision Support for Terminal Operations in Finished Vehicle Supply Chains

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Dirk Christian Mattfeld

    1. University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany

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  • The book is an analytical, theoretical, and practical work that incorporates Network Optimization, Logistics, Distribution, Transportation, and Supply Chain Management into a framework of Information Systems for a comprehensive understanding of the development of transshipment terminals in the global economy
  • The treatment of the transshipment terminal is a comprehensive Technical Management study that utilizes many of the tools of Operations Research and Management Science to understand and solve production, logistics, and distribution issues in the supply chain
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series (ORCS, volume 34)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-8

  3. Automobile Production and Distribution

    Pages 9-20

  4. Intermodal Vehicle Transshipment

    Pages 21-39

  5. Management of Terminal Operations

    Pages 41-60

  6. Modeling Terminal Operations

    Pages 61-82

  7. Allocation of Storage Space

    Pages 83-108

  8. Personnel Deployment

    Pages 109-137

  9. IT-Integration of Planning

    Pages 139-158

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 159-177
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1.1 Freight Transshipment We observe an ongoing trend towards globalized industrial produc­ tion. Multinational companies aim at strategic competitive advantages by distributing their activities around the globe. As a result, the in­ dividual supply chains become longer and more complex. Next to the supply chain reliability, companies try to keep supply chains cost effi­ cient and responsive, i.e. warrant short order fulfillment lead times (Siirie and Wagner, 2005). The above goals dictate low inventory levels at the stages of a supply chain as well as a high frequency of transports between the partners involved. Supply Chain Requirements. Detailed performance measures for a supply chain are provided by the Supply Chain Operations Refer­ ence (SCOR) model (Supply-Chain Council, 2002). The SCOR model provides four levels with increasing detail of process modeling. In accor­ dance to the process detail depicted SCOR metrics are defined for each level. Level 1 distinguishes metrics addressing the reliability of supply chains, their responsiveness, flexibility, cost and optionally their assets. On levels 2-4 these metrics are operationalized with respect to the pro­ cess types source, make and deliver. Thus, as substantial activities of the deliver process, transport and transshipment are evaluated as an integral part of the supply chain.

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  • University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany

    Dirk Christian Mattfeld

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