Distribution Logistics: Advanced Solutions to Practical Problems

✍ Scribed by Andreas Klose, Simon Görtz (auth.), Prof. Dr. Bernhard Fleischmann, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Andreas Klose (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 282
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 544
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The complexity of distribution systems is augmented by various trends: globalization of the manufacturing industry, rising customer demands, and the reverse flows within closed-loop systems. In this light, the need for ‘advanced’ planning methods that are based on quantitative optimization is constantly increasing. This book takes up the challenges posed by these developments. In doing so, it presents recent results and case studies from a group of researchers that regularly meet at the IWDL (International Workshop on Distribution Logistics). The text covers the design of distribution networks, vehicle routing, warehousing and reverse logistics. It also contains a comprehensive review of more than 60 case studies in reverse logistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Exact Column Generation Approach to the Capacitated Facility Location Problem....Pages 3-26
Modelling Warehouses in Logistical Networks....Pages 27-45
Supply Chain Optimisation in Animal Husbandry....Pages 47-64
Online Shopping and Changes in Mobility....Pages 65-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
A Real-time Vehicle Routing Model for a Courier Service Problem....Pages 87-103
Collection of Waste with Single Load Trucks: A Real Case....Pages 105-119
Planning and Controlling Daily Deliveries to the Same Clients: Problems and Adequate Solutions....Pages 121-140
Planning the Incorporation of Logistics Service Providers to Fulfill Precedence- and Time Window-Constrained Transport Requests in a Most Profitable Way....Pages 141-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Vehicle On-line Dispatching Rules in Practice....Pages 159-183
Travel Distance Estimation in Single-block ABC- Storage Strategy Warehouses....Pages 185-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
The Impact of Constraints in Closed-loop Supply Chains: The Case of Reusing Components in Product Manufacturing....Pages 203-219
E-business and Circular Supply Chains: Increased Business Opportunities by IT-based Customer Oriented Return-flow Management....Pages 221-239
Reverse Logistics: A Review of Case Studies....Pages 243-281
Back Matter....Pages 282-286

✦ Subjects

Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Organization/Planning