Logistics systems analysis.
The book deals with a specific approach to analysis and design of logistics systems. The approach is based on the continuous approximation of finite sets of customers or origins with there demands and supplies by continuous functions. The density of customers (or origins) is introduced as a function of the location in a given region and demand (or supply) is replaced by the rate of demand. The rate is considered again to be a continuous function of the location and time. This description enables to express logistics costs of a distribution system as a function of several parameters. Subsequently, minimal logistics cost is searched for over a feasible range of the parameters. The parameters are, for example, a number of stops of vehicle route serving customers, headway (this means length of the interval between two consecutive delivery times) and similar parameters. When optimal values are known at all locations of the given region, a heuristic is used to determine vehicle routes in detail. Besides the simple distribution system analysis, the monograph comprises an analysis of two more complex systems with transhipments. The first of the systems is the one-to-many system, where locations of so called consolidation terminals are to be determined, when strategic decisions are made. The next one is the many-to-many system where both consolidation and break-bulk terminal locations are searched for. The complication caused by discreteness of the terminal set in the one-to-many system is mastered by introducing another continuous approximation, which is the density of terminals taken as a function of location. Using the terminal density, logistics cost can be expressed and optimized. The resulting terminal density over the region enables partitioning of the region to subregions which should be served by one terminal. The final terminal location is determined by a heuristic. To solve the location problem of the many-to-many system, two strategies are studied. They are the one-terminal-routing and hierarchical-routing strategies, which are extended to two dimensions. These strategies assume lattice dislocation of the terminals within the region. The continuous approximation provides the optimal number of the terminals and this number together with the assumed lattice dislocation determines design of the distribution system at the strategic level. In addition, the book comprises methods for distribution system design and analysis at the tactical and operational levels including particular cost analysis, schedule coordination and other topics. To make the study of the theory easier, the author provides a number of examples and exercises and created in this way an excellent textbook.
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