International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management: Volume 12 Issue 4

Determining the Reorder Point, Protection Level and Lead Time Demand of an Inventory Item

Hon‐Shiang Lau

It is obvious that an inventory item's lead time demand is affected by the length of the lead time as well as the actual demand on each day during the lead time. In a situation…

Purchasing Strategies in Europe: An Interaction Perspective of Industrial Buyer Behaviour

M.T. Cunningham

Purchasing operates at the interface between a company and its supply market environment. Its activities are essentially concerned with securing the resource inputs of materials…

Logistics Systems Modelling: An Application to Cargo Handling Research

R.E. Gregson

In investigating a principal area of a certain African country's total distribution network, viz the cargo handling operations within its main Port, a logistics systems model was…

Life After Deregulation: The Motor Carrier Environment

Wade Ferguson

The signing of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 has brought a temporary reduction in the rhetoric for or against motor carrier deregulation. Although the final Bill was a long way…

Computer Based Road Maps

J.E. Beasley

In the early 1960s a number of people began to investigate the use of computers and quantitative techniques in routing local delivery vehicles. Such vehicles typically leave a…