Full Description
The complexity of distribution systems is augmented by various trends: globalization of the manufacturing industry, rising customer demands, and the reverse flows within closed-loop systems. In this light, the need for 'advanced' planning methods that are based on quantitative optimization is constantly increasing. This book takes up the challenges posed by these developments. In doing so, it presents recent results and case studies from a group of researchers that regularly meet at the IWDL (International Workshop on Distribution Logistics). The text covers the design of distribution networks, vehicle routing, warehousing and reverse logistics. It also contains a comprehensive review of more than 60 case studies in reverse logistics.
Contents
1: Networks.- An Exact Column Generation Approach to the Capacitated Facility Location Problem.- Modelling Warehouses in Logistical Networks.- Supply Chain Optimisation in Animal Husbandry.- Online-Shopping and Changes in Mobility.- 2: Vehicle Routing.- A Real-time Vehicle Routing Model for a Courier Service Problem.- Collection of Waste with Single Load Trucks: A Real Case.- Planning and Controlling Daily Deliveries to the Same Clients: Problems and Adequate Solutions.- Planning the Incorporation of Logistics Service Providers to Fulfill Precedence- and Time Window-Constrained Transport Requests in a Most Profitable Way.- 3: Warehousing.- Vehicle Online Dispatching Rules in Practice.- Travel Distance Estimation in Single-block ABC-Storage Strategy Warehouses.- 4: Reverse Logistics.- The Impact of Constraints in Closed-loop Supply Chains: The Case of Reusing Components in Product Manufacturing.- E-business and Circular Supply Chains: Increased Business Opportunities by IT-based Customer Oriented Return-flow Management.- Reverse Logistics: A Review of Case Studies.- List of Contributors.
