Many firms experience demand from geographically dispersed customers. This demand is satisfied by mobile servers that travel to the site of the customer. To achieve this in a cost-effective manner, the firm needs to decide where to locate its service centers, which customer regions to assign to...

Discusses how the computer is and can be used to improve the management of logistics activities in the food industry.

Visualise a company with 10,000 product items and several warehousing levels in its physical distribution channel. If this company is typical, it is not likely to stock all 10,000 items at all warehouses. But which items should be stocked at which warehouses? Fortunately, there are at least some...