Global Logistics Management (repost)

Global Logistics Management focuses on the evolution of logistics in the last two decades, and highlights recent developments from a worldwide perspective. The book details a wide range of application-oriented studies, from metropolitan bus routing problems to relief logistics, and introduces the state of the art on some classical applications. The book addresses typical logistic problems, most specifically the vehicle routing problem (VRP), followed by a series of analyses and discussions on various logistics problems plaguing airline and marine systems.

The authors address problems encountered in continuous space, and discuss the issue of consolidation, scheduling, and replenishment decisions together with routing. They propose a methodology that supports decision making at a tactical and operational level associated with daily inventory management, and also examine the three-echelon logistic network.

The text provides numerous examples and additional topics that include:

An analysis for the airline industry and a novel approach for airline logistics including fare pricing and seat inventory control
The berth-crane allocation problem in container terminals
A marine system logistics application
Ice navigation problems and factors that affect ice navigation
Pharmaceutical warehouse route design problems
An application in healthcare logistics in which medical suppliers are evaluated through a fuzzy linguistic representation model
A real data-driven simulation model that outputs a new shuttle system
A model that integrates routing and batching problems
Joint replenishment and transportation problems

Global Logistics Management clearly illustrates logistic problems encountered in many different application areas, and provides you with the latest advances in classical applications.