The Development of a Decision Making Framework For Logistics Management

An Aid to Decision Making Following on from the earlier article in the previous issue of this Journal, when the systems approach to logistics decision making was introduced, this second and final part describes the development of a set of heuristic rules. Using these as a formalised aid to everyday decision making by manufacturing companies, the total logistics analysis may be simplified. The development and testing of these decision rules were carried out as part of a programme of research work amongst a number of pharmaceutical manufacturing companies.