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Operational Transportation Planning of Modern Freight Forwarding Companies: V…
Modern freight forwarding companies attempt to cooperate with each other to increase their efficiency. Xin Wang studies the new operational transportation planning problems that arise in the context of cooperation in both static and dynamic scenarios. To achieve the cost-savings embedded in cooperation, novel planning approaches that can help forwarders obtaining high-quality solutions are prop…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-06868-4
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- XVIII, 161
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- Produktion und Logistik
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First-Time-Right Procurement
Based on more than 10 years of practical experience in the field of supply chain management, Oliver Münch indicates that in favor of sustainability within the supply chain the paradox purchasing savings can and should be substituted with the approach of the First-Time-Right Procurement. This dissertation subjects the monetary measurement of purchasing savings to a critical examination and ques…
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- 978-3-658-08620-6
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- XXV, 243
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The Handbook of Service Innovation
Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service areas, including health, education, tourism, hospitality, telecommunications, and retail. It…
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- 1
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- 978-1-4471-6590-3
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- XL, 842, 109 b/w illustrations
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- The Handbook of Service Innovation
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Optimizing Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Plans
This monograph addresses several critical problems to the operations of shipping lines and ports, and provides algorithms and mathematical models for use by shipping lines and port authorities for decision support. One of these problems is the repositioning of container ships in a liner shipping network in order to adjust the network to seasonal shifts in demand or changes in the world economy.…
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- 978-3-319-17665-9
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The Northern Sea Route: A Comprehensive Analysis
The topic, "Northern Sea Route" has become a highly relevant point on the strategic radar screen of many business and military leaders, since global climate change now opens up a hitherto impassable sea route and positions it as a strategic alternative to the Suez route. Add to this the discovery of many easily extractable commodities and metals in the arctic area. For entrepreneurs, this setti…
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- 978-3-658-04081-9
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- VI, 134
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Vertical Cooperative Advertising in Supply Chain Management A Game-Theoretic…
In this book methods from Operations Research and Game Theory are used to determine companies’ profit-maximizing strategies related to pricing and (cooperative) advertising. It considers different supply chain structures as well as various distributions of power, making it possible to analyze both inter-echelon and intra-echelon dependencies between the companies’ decisions. Additionally, a…
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- 978-3-319-11626-6
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- XXII, 149
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Advances in Production Technology
This edited volume contains the selected papers presented at the scientific board meeting of the German Cluster of Excellence on “Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries”, held in November 2014. The topical structure of the book is clustered in six sessions: Integrative Production Technology, Individualised Production, Virtual Production Systems, Integrated Technologies, …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-12304-2
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- IX, 211
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Production Engineering
- Call Number
- 658.43 ADV a
FMEA Using Uncertainty Theories and MCDM Methods
This book offers a thorough and systematic introduction to the modified failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) models based on uncertainty theories (e.g. fuzzy logic, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, D numbers and 2-tuple linguistic variables) and various multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) approaches such as distance-based MCDM, compromise ranking MCDM and hybrid MCDM, etc. As such, it provides e…
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- 978-981-10-1466-6
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- 28 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
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Advances in Integrated and Sustainable Supply Chain Planning: Concepts, Metho…
Decision making at the enterprise level often encompass not only production operations and product R&D, but other strategic functions such as financial planning and marketing. With the aim of maximizing growth and a firm’s value, companies often focus on co-ordinating these functional components as well as traditional hierarchical decision levels. Understanding this interplay can enhance ente…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10220-7
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- XX, 309
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- -
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- 658 LAI a
Advances in Efficiency and Productivity
This book grows from a conference on the state of the art and recent advances in Efficiency and Productivity. Papers were commissioned from leading researchers in the field, and include eight explorations into the analytical foundations of efficiency and productivity analysis. Chapters on modeling advances include reverse directional distance function, a new method for estimating technologic…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-48461-7
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- VI, 415
- Series Title
- International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
- Call Number
- 658.43 ADV a
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