TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simchi-Levi,David
AU  - Chen,Xin
AU  - Bramel,Julien
TI  - Logic of logistics: theory, algorithms, and applications for logistics management 
T2  - Springer series in operations research and financial engineering
SN  - 9781461491484
U1  - 658.00151 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Business logistics
KW  - Operations research
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-439) and index; 1. Introduction--
Part I Performance analysis techniques:
2. Convexity and supermodularity--
3. Game theory--
4. Worst-case analysis-
5. Average-case analysis--
6. Mathematical programming-based bounds--

Part II Inventory models:
7. Economic lot size models with constant demands--
8. Economic lot size models with varying demands--
9. Stochastic inventory models--
10. Integration of inventory and pricing--

Part III Competition, coordination and design models:
11. Supply chain competition and collaboration models--
12. Procurement contracts--
13. Process Flexibility--
14. Supply chain planning models--
15. Facility location models--

Part IV Vehicle routing models:
16. The capacitated VRP with equal demands--
17. The capacitated VRP with unequal demands--
18. The VRP with time-window constraints--
19. Solving the VRP using a column-generation approach--

Part V Logistic algorithms in practice:
20. Network planning--
21. A case study: school bus routing--

References--
Index

N2  - This book, written for the logistics manager and researcher, presents a survey of the modern theory and application of logistics. The goal of the book is to present the state-of-the-art in the science of logistics management. As a result, the authors have written a timely and authoritative survey of this field that many practitioners and researchers will find makes an invaluable companion to their work
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