The Management of Transshipment Terminals Decision Support for Terminal Operations in Finished Vehicle Supply Chains /

• Main Author: Mattfeld, Dirk Christian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, 35
• Subjects: Business.; Organization.; Planning.; Management.; Industrial management.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.; Industrial and Production Engineering.; Innovation/Technology Management.

1.1 Freight Transshipment We observe an ongoing trend towards globalized industrial produc­ tion. Multinational companies aim at strategic competitive advantages by distributing their activities around the globe. As a result, the in­ dividual supply chains become longer and more complex. Next to the...