The Logic of Logistics - Theory, Algorithms, and Applications for Logistics Management

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Summary from the contents:
Introduction
Worst-case analysis. Average-case analysis
Mathematical programming based bounds
The capacitated VRP with equal demands
The capacitated VRP with unequal demands
The VRP with time window constraints
Solving the VRP using a column generation approach
Economic lot size models with constant demands
Economic lot size models with varying demands. Stochastic inventory models
Facility location models. Integrated logistics models
A case study: school bus routing
A decision support system for network configuration
References
Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Julien Bramel, David Simchi-Levi
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780387221991
• ISBN: 978-0-387-22199-1
• Seiten: 355
• Gewicht: 686 g
• Illustration: 38 SW-Abb.,
• Serien: Springer Series in Operations Research; Springer Series in Operations Research
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Mathematik > Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, Stochastik, Mathematische Statistik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Management