Green Logistics has emerged as the new agenda item in supply chain management. The
traditional objective of distribution management has been upgraded to minimizing system …

The inventory-routing problem (IRP) dates back 30 years. It can be described as the
combination of vehicle-routing and inventory management problems, in which a supplier …

This paper describes industrial aspects of combined inventory management and routing in
maritime and road-based transportation, and gives a classification and comprehensive …

In the e‐commerce era, vendors have to satisfy a large number of on‐line orders, mainly
from private customers, with low weight and volume, reduced delivery time, and overlap of …

Following our previous paper (Brahimi, Dauzère-Pérès, Najid, & Nordli, 2006), we present
an updated and extended survey of Single-Item Lot-Sizing Problems with focus on …

The production routing problem (PRP) combines the lot-sizing problem and the vehicle
routing problem, two classical problems that have been extensively studied for more than …

The inventory routing problem (IRP) and the production routing problem (PRP) are two
difficult problems arising in the planning of integrated supply chains. These problems are …

In vehicle routing problems (VRPs) the decisions to be taken concern the assignment of
customers to vehicles and the sequencing of the customers assigned to each vehicle …

Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the
methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how …

Biomass logistics comprise of inter-dependent operations related to harvesting and
collection, storage, pre-processing, and transportation. Its high cost represents one of the …