Increasing customer needs, the globalization of markets and the evolution of e-commerce add to the complexity of logistic processes. In today's business, it is well understood that an effective management of logistic processes is impossible without the use of computer-based tools and...

1 Distributed Service Network Characteristics -- 1.1. What Is a Distributed Service Network? -- 1.2. Hierarchy of Policy Making in a Distributed Service Network -- 1.3. Technical Characteristics of a Distributed Service Network -- 1.4. The Hypercube Model: A System in a Steady State -- 1.5....

The globalization of markets has reinforced the interest in logistics. A constantly raising level of competition among companies stresses the need for improved logistic processes, in terms of cost reduction and increased service level. The book covers the main problems of distribution logistics:...