Distribution Logistics: Advanced Solutions to Practical ProblemsBernhard Fleischmann, Andreas Klose The complexity of distribution systems is augmented by various trends: globalization of the manufacturing industry, rising customer demands, and the reverse flows within closed-loop systems. In this light, the need for ‘advanced’ planning methods that are based on quantitative optimization is constantly increasing. This book takes up the challenges posed by these developments. In doing so, it presents recent results and case studies from a group of researchers that regularly meet at the IWDL (International Workshop on Distribution Logistics). The text covers the design of distribution networks, vehicle routing, warehousing and reverse logistics. It also contains a comprehensive review of more than 60 case studies in reverse logistics. |
Contents
An Exact Column Generation Approach to the Capacitated Facility Location Problem | 3 |
Modelling Warehouses in Logistical Networks | 27 |
Supply Chain Optimisation in Animal Husbandry | 47 |
Online Shopping and Changes in Mobility | 65 |
A Realtime Vehicle Routing Model for a Courier Service Problem | 87 |
A Real Case | 105 |
Problems and Adequate Solutions | 121 |
Planning the Incorporation of Logistics Service Providers to Fulfill Precedence and Time WindowConstrained Transport Requests in a Most Profitabl... | 141 |
Vehicle Online Dispatching Rules in Practice | 159 |
Travel Distance Estimation in Singleblock ABCStorage Strategy Warehouses | 185 |
The Case of Reusing Components in Product Manufacturing | 203 |
Increased Business Opportunities by ITbased Customer Oriented Returnflow Management | 221 |
A Review of Case Studies | 243 |
List of Contributors | 283 |
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Common terms and phrases
algorithm assignment average travel distance capacitated facility location capacity CFLP closed-loop supply chains collection rate column components computation constraints consumer CPLEX customers Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition decision delivery requests demand dispatching rules distribution center dual Eco-label pigs economic end-of-life products end-of-use facility location problem feasible Fleischmann function heuristic insertion Journal of Operational Koster Lagrangean load waiting logistical networks LP relaxation master problem method MODFCFS modules Multi_att Netherlands nodes number of skips NVF_RC NVFTP_R NWFTP OMRON online shopping Operational Research optimal solution optimisation pallets parameters penalty cost performance pick-up picking plant product life cycle quantities recovery recycling remanufacturing repair returns reuse reverse logistics scenario selection shipment slaughterhouses slaughtering-houses solve storage storage-aisle strategy structure subgradient subproblem suppliers supply chain management Table tour transport variable vehicle routing vehicle routing problem warehouse Wassenhove wholesalers