...Gino Marchet; Marco Melacini; Sara Perotti Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to categorise the research on environmental sustainability in logistics and transportation on the basis of the main themes and study methods and proposes directions for future research. Design/methodology...

.... The billing information after confirmation of shipment is used for accounts receivable in the accounting department. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Logistics Resource allocation Databases Manufacturing resource planning Recently, in China, the concept and application...

... on four relevant dimensions of customer logistics service provided by manufacturers, as well as on their perceptions of logistics service performance of the typical supplier and the best supplier. The evolution of the gaps between retailers’ expectations and manufacturers’ perceived distribution...

... and ensure high reactivity and usually efficient logistics. This means a decrease in stock and transaction costs. This development takes place in markets with only a few companies or a few very dominant companies (like in the the retail and car industries). The IT developments also support the formation...

... and its applicability to monitoring the performance of the supply chain is proposed. A simulation model of a typical, single channel logistics network was developed. Using the simulation model, each of the order release mechanisms was assessed and close agreement was obtained with the work of previous...

... business functions agree to a demand plan that meets all of their needs. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Supply chain Scheduling Enterprise resource planning Cycle time Product life cycle Logistics Supply chain management (SCM) enables the coordinated management of material and information...

...Sin Hoon Hum Third party logistics services have a significant role to play in the current trend of outsourcing of the logistics function. From the third party logistics service provider’s perspective, the provider must seek to manage itself strategically in order to win an increasing share...

... between own account, hire and reward and long‐term partnership to distribute basic commodities, given the existing manufacturing base (facility locations are given). The methodology takes into account the context of the local markets and supply of logistic services and considers multiple performance...

...‐time sharply based on this booking system. Additionally, it became possible simultaneously to reduce inventory levels and logistic‐related costs through such management innovation as shortening planning lead‐time and other entry delivery systems and such improvement activities as making small lot‐size...

... network; the immediate network of customer‐supplier relationships; and, finally, the internal network, with the flow of information and materials between departments, cells or operating sectors. See Figure 1 . Brazil Logistics Motor industry Supply‐chain management Many studies have...

.... Design Logistics Object oriented computing Simulation Warehousing For many years logistics has been considered a post‐designing process and it has been treated as an isolated task rather than as another manufacturing system sub‐process. Today, material handling systems are being properly...

...Juha‐Matti Lehtonen; Ulla Seppala Presents a methodology called controllability analysis in logistics. Controllability focuses on two first steps of the simulation project: problem definition; and data gathering and analysis. The aim of the analysis is to reveal the potential improvement areas...

...Paul P.M. Stoop; J. Will M. Bertrand In complex, job‐shop‐like production departments it is usually very difficult to predict the near‐future logistic performance as well as to explain or diagnose objectively why and how a certain performance has been achieved. Presents a prediction and diagnosis...

... the system resulting in a complicated use of the model. For a decision maker who wants to understand the problems of a supply chain as a whole and has limited time resources, only spreadsheet, pen and paper are offered. Discusses a tool which has been developed to model the logistics networks quickly...

..., has pioneered a number of approaches to business process innovation, particularly in the area of inventory management and logistics. Finds that by simultaneously redesigning information flows, work processes and authority structures, the company has radically improved not only the cost and quality...