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A Shipment Information Centre
Yosef SheffiThe revolution in information processing and communication technology has transformed the logistics business and opened new opportunities. To capitalize on these opportunities one…
The Effect of New Information Technology on the Practice of Traffic Management
James M. Masters, Bernard J. La Londe, Lisa R. WilliamsThe decade of the 1980s brought significant change to the traffic management function. Freed from the strictures of transportation regulation, traffic managers were able to form…
Logistics Organization and the Information System
Philip B. Schary, James CoakleyInformation technology is changing the nature of logistics organization. It is reducing the cost of transactions and redefining organizations and their interconnections. This…
The Status and Impact of Logistics Issues in the Success of Co‐Production via Maquiladoras
Stanley E. FawcettCo‐production through maquiladora operations has become an increasingly popular approach to meeting the competitive challenges presented by economic globalization. To take full…
The Paradox of Logistics in Europe
James CooperThe completion of the Single European Market in 1992 has major implications for logistics throughout the 1990s and beyond. However, as logistics has come under the spotlight, many…
Managing the Global Pipeline
Alan Braithwaite, Martin Christopher‘Time has ceased, “space” has vanished. We now live in a global village…a simultaneous happening’.Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, Bantam Books, USA, 1967
Development of a Total Logistics Concept: A Method for Improving Logistics Performance
M.J. Ploos van Amstel, M.F.G.M. VerstegenIndustrial enterprises are having to meet changes in customers' requirements at ever shorter intervals. The life cycles of products are becoming shorter, the pay‐back time of…
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- Prof. Britta Gammelgaard