Cost Tradeoffs in Distribution Management

Abstract

There are a number of new techniques which have recently been developed for improving the design and economic justification of distribution facilities and management systems. These new techniques are important because they provide quantitative methods for handling the real‐life tradeoffs which are usually involved between storage, handling, transporting, information processing, and customer service. In essence, the objective of distribution management is to identify and implement these optimum tradeoffs so as to achieve maximum profit to the firm.

Citation

Herron, D.P. (1975), "Cost Tradeoffs in Distribution Management", International Journal of Physical Distribution, Vol. 5 No. 5, pp. 252-266. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014348