.... With five case studies, we illustrate process structures and related measurements for both customized and standardized deliveries. A framework for setting objectives for different process types is proposed. The result is a normative scheme for different processes that suggests ways to set meaningful...

... the business opportunities generated by first recognizing the existence of the supply chain information decoupling point and then learning how to utilize it to gain strategic advantage. In order to make sensible planning and delivery decisions, a business must be able to separate out contingency from real...

... partnerships, while manufacturing firms emphasized the price, quality, and delivery of products. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Buyer ‐ seller relationships Partnership Manufacturing industries Procurement Delivery ...

... competition. While results from this application only directly apply to the shipper in the study, this application does show how shippers and carriers can use the methodology to make/study decisions in the LTL versus multiple‐stop TL problem. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Freight forwarding Delivery...

... Quality Control (TQC) have been developed to meet the ever stricter demands made on products, their production and distribution processes; demands which may well be even more stringent in the liberalized Europe of the years following 1992. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Distribution management Delivery...

... countries: increased specialisation of service for road freight companies; and the adoption of logistics concepts to give a unified view of the flow of goods from input sources to the delivery of final products to customers. To speak of a coming revolution in European logistics would not be overstating...