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Planning the Distribution System: an operational approach

DAVID WALTERS (Cranfield School of Management Marketing Logistics Systems Research Unit)

International Journal of Physical Distribution

ISSN: 0020-7527

Article publication date: 1 May 1972

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Abstract

This monograph considers recent developments in management techniques and proposes their use in physical distribution system planning. The recent developments in physical distribution management are reviewed and the author considers how such techniques as missions analysis and systems thinking may be combined into a useful planning model with which the problems of physical distribution system design may be analysed and solved. The monograph is not specific in that it does not offer management “ten easy steps to system design”. It takes a broad view of the problems involved and is concerned with an approach to system planning rather than specific problem solutions.

Citation

WALTERS, D. (1972), "Planning the Distribution System: an operational approach", International Journal of Physical Distribution, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 108-149. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014274

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1972, MCB UP Limited

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