Quantitative Approaches to Distribution Logistics and Supply Chain Management

1: Supply Chain Management.- Examining Supply Chains from Practice.- Valuing Time in Make-to-stock Manufacturing: Calculating the Limits of Time-based Competition.- Internal Pricing in Supply Chains.- 2: Reverse Logistics.- Closed-loop Supply Chains.- Extended Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains: Optimising Economic, Logistic and Environment al Performance.- A Behavioral Approach for Logistics System Analy sis and Design: A Reverse Logisti cs Case.- Performance of MRP in Product Recovery Systems with Demand, Return and Leadtime Uncertainties.- One and Two Way Packaging in the Dairy Sector.- 3: Distribution Logistics and E-Commerce.- The Logistics Behind the Enter Click.- Distribution Planning with Specific Delivery Time Restrictions for the Handling of Electronic Customer Orders in Food/Non-Food Retail Trade.- An Analysis of a Combinatorial Auction.- 4: Warehouse Location and Network Planning.- The Practice of Distribution Network Planning: Coping with Shortcomings in Important Data Quality.- A Greedy Heuristic for a Three-level Multi-period Single-sourcing Problem.- Combinatorial Optimisation Problems of the Assignment Type and a Partitioning Apprach.- 5: Vehicle Routing and Transportation.- The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Simultaneous Pick-up and Delivery.- The Application of a Vehicle Routing Model to a Waste Collection Problem: Two Case Studies.- Strategic Vehicle Routing Problems in Practice — A pure Software Problem or a Problem Requiring Scientific Advice? Routing Problems of Daily Deliveries to the Same Customers.- 6: Warehousing.- Design of a 2-Stations Automated Guided Vehicle System.- On-line versus Off-line Control with Multi-load Vehicles.- 7: Inventory Control.- Average Costs versus Net Present Value: A Comparison for Multi-source Inventory Models.- Safety Stocks in Capacity-constrained Production Systems.- Approximations for the Waiting Time in (8, nQ)-Inventory Models for Different Types of Consolidation Policies.- List of Contributors.