Quantitative Approaches to Distribution Logistics and Supply Chain Management

ISBN-13: 9783540436904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 424 str.

Andreas Klose; L. N. V. Wassenhove; M. Garcia Speranza

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 for Multi-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.