Current studies indicate that buyers can improve lead‐time performance and reduce total inventory‐system costs by … shipment decreases and typically comprise a sizeable portion of total logistics cost. Investigates the role of transportation … transportation costs explicitly and then used to conduct 54 experiments to measure the gains or losses in total logistics costs under …

Recent models comparing inventory costs under just‐in‐time (JIT) purchasing plans and economic order quantity (EOQ …) purchasing plans have tended to favor EOQ purchasing in situations where annual demand of inventory is moderately large. Contends … series of inventory purchasing cost models that extend prior methodology by Fazel by including relevant physical distribution …