Book description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to strategically manage the movement and storage of products or materials from any point in the manufacturing process to customer fulfillment. Topics covered include important tools for strategic decision making, transport, packaging, warehousing, retailing, customer services and future trends.- An introduction to logistics
- Provides practical applications
- Discusses trends and new strategies in major parts of the logistic industry
Table of contents
- Cover Image
- Table of Contents
- Front-matter
- Copyright
- List of Contributors
- 1. Overview
- 2. Physical Flows
- 3. Logistics Strategic Decisions
- 4. Logistics Philosophies
- 5. Logistics Parties
- 6. Logistics Future Trends
- 7. Transportation
- 8. The Vehicle-Routing Problem
- 9. Packaging and Material Handling
- 10. Storage, Warehousing, and Inventory Management
- 11. Customer Service
- 12. Logistics System
- 13. Reverse Logistics
- 14. Retail Logistics
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15. Humanitarian Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. Disasters
- 15.3. Disaster Management System Cycle
- 15.4. Humanitarian Logistics
- 15.5. Humanitarian Logistics Problems
- 15.6. Coordination of Humanitarian Logistics Systems
- 15.7. Performance Measurement of Humanitarian Logistics Systems
- 15.8. Case Studies and Learned Lessons
- 15.9. Conclusion
- 16. Freight-Transportation Externalities
- 17. Robust Optimization of Uncertain Logistics Networks
- 18. Integration in Logistics Planning and Optimization
- 19. Optimization in Natural Gas Network Planning
- 20. Risk Management in Gas Networks
- 21. Modeling the Energy Freight-Transportation Network
Product information
- Title: Logistics Operations and Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2011
- Publisher(s): Elsevier
- ISBN: 9780123852038
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