Innovations in Distribution Logistics
In a globalized economy logistics has become a crucial area for the success of companies. The performance of each company depends on the performance of its suppliers and of its business partners. The customers of each company are spread on a large geograp
- PDF / 5,657,255 Bytes
- 284 Pages / 439.37 x 666.142 pts Page_size
- 3 Downloads / 266 Views
Luca Bertazzi . M. Grazia Speranza Jo A. E. E. van Nunen (Eds.)
Innovations in Distribution Logistics
ABC
Professor Luca Bertazzi Professor M. Grazia Speranza Universit à degli Studi di Brescia Dipartimento Metodi Quantitativi Contrada da S. Chiara 50 25122 Brescia Italy [email protected] [email protected]
Professor Jo. A. E. E. van Nunen Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management Department of Decision and Information Sciences Burg. Oudlaan 50, Roomnr. T09-30 3062 PA Rotterdam The Netherlands [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-92943-7 e-ISBN 978-3-540-92944-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-92944-4 Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems ISSN 0075-8442 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008944011 © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permissions for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: SPi Publishing Services, India Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
Preface
The globalization of markets and the availability of new information technologies have stimulated research in distribution logistics in the last few years. Classical transportation, routing and inventory problems are being more and more studied from a supply chain management perspective and the on-line information made available by the new technologies is more and more used in the decision processes. A scientific approach to the most innovative logistic problems, combined with a high level of attention towards practice, has motivated a series of “International workshops in distribution logistics (IWDL)”. This volume includes some of the papers that have been presented at the IWDL2006, the workshop of the IWDL series which was in Brescia (Italy) in October 2006. In this volume we focus on the distribution network, which represents the most complex and critical part of the logistic system, and cover several areas, in particular distribution network design, supply chain optimization, internal logistics, routing problems, transportation and e-business, and location problems. Due to the variety of the topics in the domain of distribution logistics covered by this volume, we decided to present the contributions in alphabetical order of the name of the first author. The reader will find through the index the topic
Data Loading...
