...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...

... and consultancy services. This is a cost‐effective approach that is affordable by smaller firms. In particular, the author analysed two major components of ERP re‐configurable objects: material or inventory objects and financial objects; their key relationship and the methods associated with the logistics...

... 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...

... organizations. Organizations can form hierarchical relations with a few big customers and/or suppliers. These relations are very tight 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...

... 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...

...). © 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 flows throughout the chain from your sources to your customers...

...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...

... relationships with suppliers … which allowed their companies to compete efficiently in a fundamental way”. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Brazil Logistics Motor industry Supply‐chain management Many studies have been carried out on the production systems of the automotive industry, industrial...

.... But, what happens if the cadence of the references change? The warehouse must have the possibility to be recast to the new situation, changing assignations of loads from open location to dedicated ones, and vice versa. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Design Logistics Object oriented computing...

...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...