International Journal of Physical Distribution: Volume 3 Issue 5

A SURVEY OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICES IN TRANSPORTATION AND DISTRIBUTION

B.J. La Londe, Karl Auker

Over the past decade the development of computer technology and its application to modern‐day business problems has revolutionised the whole process of business control and…

DISCRIMINATORY FREIGHT PRICING AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT

R.S. Mason

Customer location is a market‐limiting factor for the great majority of manufacturers. Under any full‐cost pricing system, companies are at their most competitive on their own…

INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE LIFE CYCLE OF LOGISTICS DEPARTMENTS

Frederick J. Beier

There is a growing body of literature which focuses on the complexities of organising the logistics function(s) within an industrial firm. While some of the literature discusses…

IMPROVING PROFITS WITH DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

Nicos Christofides, C.D.T. Watson‐Gandy

The choice of what services to provide to customers is a problem of strategic significance to most companies, yet this is a decision which is often taken in an arbitrary fashion…

IMPROVED STOCK LOCATION IN THE PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION CHANNEL

Ronald H. Ballou

Visualise a company with 10,000 product items and several warehousing levels in its physical distribution channel. If this company is typical, it is not likely to stock all 10,000…

THE ROLE OF THE TEXTILE AGENT:: A Case Study in Distribution Channel Development

Clemens N. Nathan

Each industry requires a multitude of specialists to activate business. The textile industry imports in yarn and fabrics approximately £256 million each year and exports in excess…

TOTAL DISTRIBUTION COST SIMULATION MODEL

H.C. Garnett, P.S. Smith

The choice of mode of transport used by a shipper to move his goods does not depend solely upon relative transportation costs. It should be viewed as one part of the complex…

THE INVISIBLE IMPEDIMENTS TO FREIGHT INTEGRATION:: Prospects and Proposals for the Future

E. Ralph Sims

One of the most obvious objectives in the development of orderliness and economics in international logistics and trade would, of course, be the standardisation of regulations…

INTERNATIONAL PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION NEWS

Despite persistent reports in the British and Italian press that plans are afoot to construct a new Suez Canal west of the existing waterway, the Egyptian Government has denied…