... of estimation show that improvements to the physical capacity dimension lead to higher costs and improvements to the human performance have no significant impact on costs. Research limitations/implications – The major limitation of this study is that it is restricted to a single carrier and total costs...

...Anna Azzi; Daria Battini; Maurizio Faccio; Alessandro Persona; Fabio Sgarbossa Purpose – Logisticians in the worldwide industry are frequently faced with the problem of measuring the total cost of holding inventories with simple and easy-to-use methodologies. The purpose of this paper is to look...