.... H1b. … respond to disruptive events. Christian F. Durach can be contacted at: cdurach@escp.eu 27 03 2019 18 03 2020 22 04 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Distribution Supply chain management...

... and distribute more efficiently. In this case study, we analyse for a particular pharmaceutical manufacturer in The Netherlands, whose name is confidential, the outsourcing of distribution in combination with a cyclical planning procedure of the packaging of medicines. Next, this cyclical packaging plan...

...Chandrasekhar Das; Rajesh Tyagi This paper considers a new class of problems arising in the distribution side of supply chains. It considers cooperative market expansion and price negotiation by wholesalers and manufacturers in a class of franchise‐type distribution markets. For wholesalers...

...Vaidyanathan Jayaraman Examines the interdependence between facility location, transportation and inventory issues in a distribution network design problem. Management of inventories, determination of transportation policy, and location of plants and distribution centers are normally carried out...

...Karel van Donselaar; Graham Sharman Describes an experiment begun in 1994 at Eindhoven University in The Netherlands, which aimed for the integration of research, education and knowledge transfer to industry. This experiment focused on the transportation and distribution (T&D) sector...

...‐ distribution problem. Then offers a non‐linear programming model of the transportation problem under production economies of scale to illustrate the computational complexity of the problem. Discusses and proves the convergence of the “tangent line approximation procedure”. Finally, introduces and solves...

...Patricia J. Daugherty; Paul H. Pittman Explores how firms can use time‐based strategies within their distribution operations. Exploratory results are presented detailing strategic distribution responses employed to meet competitive challenges and gain competitive advantages. These firms have...

... Centralization Distribution Forecasting Operations management Productivity Quality The situation in the one‐sixth part of the earth, previously the USSR,has dramatically changed. There is no longer a Soviet Union on the map. It has been replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS...

... is doubtful. As a result, a modified truncated rule is presented that is easy to implement and yet performs favourably with respect to inventory and due date performance. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Distribution Job shop Scheduling Trade‐offs Inventory Customer satisfaction IJOPM 9,7 72...

...Tan Miller; Matthew J. Liberatore The development and implementation of an integrated production and distribution planning system requires more than the optimal solution of a set of mathematical models. Success is achieved when the organisation addresses both the technical and human issues...