International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management: Volume 12 Issue 6

The Efficacy of US Maritime Policy

Martin T. Farris

Underlying all distribution patterns is a supporting framework of transportation services. These services are greately affected by the transportation policy of the nation as set…

Typology of Physical Distribution Systems in Multi‐national Corporations

Jacques Picard

An essential part of any manufacturing company's set of decisions is its distribution policy. This is very often referred to in the marketing literature as the “place” or…

UK Progress in PDM

Gordon Wills, Angela Rushton

Since 1975, physical distribution management in the UK has developed rapidly. Indicative of this is the move by the Centre for Physical Distribution Management (CPDM) to take…

Management Education for Physical Distribution and Logistics

K.Q. Dadzie

Since the emergence of physical distribution/logistics management as an applied discipline in the early 1960s, the search for requisite skills has dominated the concerns of…