Logistics network design is commonly recognized as a strategic supplychain issue of prime importance. The location of production facilities,storage concepts, and transportation strategies are major determinantsof supply chain performance. This chapter considers logistics network design for the...

Reverse logistics concerns the integration of used and obsolete products back into the supply chain as valuable resources. Economic, marketing, and legislative drivers increasingly are leading companies to take back and recover their products after use. The arising product flows pose novel...

Introduction ix I.1. Bibliography xv Chapter 1. Logistics Challenges 1 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Forward supply chain 2 1.3. Higher, further, bigger 5 1.4. Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything goes somewhere 14 1.5. Nothing goes well anymore 19 1.6. Conclusion 27 1.7. Bibliography 28...

Sensors are commonly employed to monitor products during their life cycles and to remotely and continuously track their usage patterns. Installing sensors into products can help generate useful data related to the conditions of products and their components, and this information can subsequently...