States that total logistics costs in many companies can be reduced by as much as 10 per cent as a result of integrated planning, which can have an enormous impact on a company′s profitability, especially in a competitive environment characterized by small profit margins. Integrated logistics...

Technical barriers to the use of advanced decision support systems based on mathematical programming models for integrated planning are becoming less and less important. The more important issue is the organisation′s ability to adapt its structure to exploit the insights which these systems...