International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 33 Issue 8

Assessing the responsiveness in the Danish mobile phone supply chain

Michael Catalan, Herbert Kotzab

Focuses on performance efficiency in the mobile phone supply chain. Through a description of exogenous conditions in the mobile phone industry concerning product characteristics…

EOQ models for postponed payment of stored commodities

Øyvind Halskau

In inventory theory the inventory holding cost per unit plays an important part. In most transactions concerning selling and buying a certain postponement of payment is offered or…

Trends in industrial supply chains and networks

Katariina Kemppainen, Ari P.J. Vepsäläinen

Asks what really has changed for and what to expect from future supply chains. Most surveys rank activities related to sourcing, operations, customer services and marketing in…

Aligning corporate strategy, procurement strategy and e‐procurement tools

Daniel Knudsen

This paper presents a framework for assessing alignment between corporate strategy, procurement strategy and purchasing tools. The framework is built on generation of rents as its…

An industry analysis of express freight from a European railway perspective

Sofia Ohnell, Johan Woxenius

There are large differences in both speed and costs between the traffic modes road and air. Rail has not yet successfully offered services “faster than road but cheaper than air”…