Fierce competition in the global market provides a powerful motivation for developing ever more sophisticated logistics systems. This book, written for the logistics manager and researcher, presents a survey of the modern theory and application of logistics. Part One considers the basic performance analysis issues for logistics, and both worst-case and average-case techniques are covered. Part Two then covers vehicle routing problems and Part Three concentrates on production and inventory problems. Part Four considers ...
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Fierce competition in the global market provides a powerful motivation for developing ever more sophisticated logistics systems. This book, written for the logistics manager and researcher, presents a survey of the modern theory and application of logistics. Part One considers the basic performance analysis issues for logistics, and both worst-case and average-case techniques are covered. Part Two then covers vehicle routing problems and Part Three concentrates on production and inventory problems. Part Four considers hierarchical problems in logistics networks and in particular the integration of different levels of decisions. Finally, Part Five looks at case studies in which decision support tools for large-scale logistics applications are developed.
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