Purpose: The Just-in-Sequence (JIS) approach is evidencing advantages in efficiently managing variety-driven costs, and reducing the risk of disruption in sourcing, manufacturing companies and third-party logistics. This has increased its implementation in the manufacturing industry, especially...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to determine the convenience of using a contract model as an integration mechanism for decision-making in a decentralized supply chain of small agricultural producers in a developing country, taking as hypothesis coordinated chain achieves better...

This paper aims to analyze the impacts of a backup agreement contract on the performance of a small agricultural producers' citrus supply chain. A backup agreement contract, which ensures for each echelon that a quantity of products will be bought independently of real demand, is proposed to...

This paper proposes a comparison between two fast heuristic algorithms to solve a multi-carrier 2E-VRP (Two-Echelon Vehicle Routing Problem) in city logistics under realistic conditions. We propose a cluster-first route-second algorithm to compare the performance of two route construction and...

"This book examines urban goods transport. It addresses quantitative methods of transport modelling, applied to freight/goods transport in urban areas. It also gives an overview as well as a set of methodological proposals to model urban goods transport flows for planning and management issues"--