Industrial

This book describes how to plan and design efficient logistics systems considering simultaneously all integral aspects of their operation, and how to evaluate economically existing or proposed systems. The approach, more physical than mathematical, requires little data. Bulding on an understanding of the simplest logistics system with only one origin and one destination, the book treats problems with many origins and destination, many destinations and one origin, and many origins and many destinations; this is done for systems with and without transshipments. The methodologies presented in the book are particulary useful when decisions have to be made with incomplete or uncertain informations; e.g., when evaluating a business plan, or designing a system for a long time horizon.

This expanded edition includes new research results and numerous modifications to enhance comprehensiveness and clarity. It has two new sections, anew appendix, and more than half a dozen new figures.