Logistics Operations and Management: Concepts and Models

  • 8h 57m
  • Laleh Kardar (eds), Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Shabnam Rezapour
  • Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
  • 2011

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

In this Book

  • Overview
  • Physical Flows
  • Logistics Strategic Decisions
  • Logistics Philosophies
  • Logistics Parties
  • Logistics Future Trends
  • Transportation
  • The Vehicle-Routing Problem
  • Packaging and Material Handling
  • Storage, Warehousing, and Inventory Management
  • Customer Service
  • Logistics System: Information and Communication Technology
  • Reverse Logistics
  • Retail Logistics
  • Humanitarian Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations
  • Freight-Transportation Externalities
  • Robust Optimization of Uncertain Logistics Networks
  • Integration in Logistics Planning and Optimization
  • Optimization in Natural Gas Network Planning
  • Risk Management in Gas Networks: A Survey
  • Modeling the Energy Freight-Transportation Network
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