Fierce competition in today's global market provide 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 I considers the basic performance analysis issues for logistics, both worst-case and average-case techniques are covered.
Part II covers vehicle routing problems.
Part III concentrates on production and inventory problems.
Part IV considers hierarchical problems in logistics networks and in particular the integration of different levels of decisions.
Part V looks at case studies in which decision support tools for large-scale logistics applications are developed.
This timely and authoritative survey of the field will be useful to practitioners and researchers.
Part I considers the basic performance analysis issues for logistics, both worst-case and average-case techniques are covered.
Part II covers vehicle routing problems.
Part III concentrates on production and inventory problems.
Part IV considers hierarchical problems in logistics networks and in particular the integration of different levels of decisions.
Part V looks at case studies in which decision support tools for large-scale logistics applications are developed.
This timely and authoritative survey of the field will be useful to practitioners and researchers.
From the reviews of the second edition:
"The present book focuses on the application of operational research and mathematical modelling techniques to logistics and supply chain management (SCM) problems. The authors performed a substantial revision of the 1st edition and included a number of new subjects ... . The book is carefully written and is an important reference for readers with a solid background in probability and optimisation theory ... . the present book should be seen as a valuable guide describing techniques that can be applied or adapted to real-life situations."
(Teresa Melo, OR News, Issue 25, 2005)
"The present book focuses on the application of operational research and mathematical modelling techniques to logistics and supply chain management (SCM) problems. The authors performed a substantial revision of the 1st edition and included a number of new subjects ... . The book is carefully written and is an important reference for readers with a solid background in probability and optimisation theory ... . the present book should be seen as a valuable guide describing techniques that can be applied or adapted to real-life situations."
(Teresa Melo, OR News, Issue 25, 2005)