Supply Chain Management Decisions: Location, Routing and Inventory Models and Optimization Methods

Babaee Tirkolaee, Erfan; Goli, Alireza

ISBN 10: 3659912867 / ISBN 13: 9783659912863

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Supply Chain Management Decisions: Location, Routing and Inventory Models and Optimization Methods
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659912867
• ISBN 13: 9783659912863
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This Supply Chain Management Decisions book provides a modern up-to-date insight into the latest ideas about Supply Chain Management from a real-world perspective specially transportation area. Effective development and management of a supply chain network is an invaluable source of sustainable advantage in today’s turbulent global marketplace, where transportation services are the most essential and supply chains need to be more flexible as a result. Covers supply chain management as a whole, focusing on the integration of components associated with developing new products, buying materials, transforming them, and shipping them to customers. Contains topical discussions of what supply chains are, why they are important, and what types of challenges are implicit in managing supply chains. Optimal transportation policies will result in improving inventory management. The more consolidated the products and the warehouses are, the cheaper the transportation costs as shipments can be sent in larger batches. Therefore considering the transportation impact on these decisions is important.

About the Author

Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee,Department of Industrial Engineering,Mazandaran University of Science and Technology,Iran. & Alireza Goli, Department of Industrial Engineering, Yazd University, Iran.