International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 32 Issue 3

A typology of vulnerability scenarios towards suppliers and customers in supply chains based upon perceived time and relationship dependencies

Göran Svensson

The topic of this research focuses on companies’ perceived time and relationship dependencies in supply chains. The empirical findings are based upon a mail survey in the Swedish…

Managing multi‐item common vendor inventory system with random demands

Sameer Kumar, Charu Chandra

This paper deals with developing new heuristic ordering rules for managing multi‐item, single vendor inventory systems with random demands. The inventory position for each item is…

The impact of electronic commerce on logistics service providers

Werner Delfmann, Sascha Albers, Martin Gehring

The impact of e‐commerce on the business environment is often praised but seldom analyzed with scrutiny. In this paper we try to depict the underlying logistically relevant…

Life after death: reverse logistics and the product life cycle

Ronald S. Tibben‐Lembke

Managing the reverse flow of product is an important ability for any company, as the recent experiences of many online retailers illustrate. Reverse logistics is a growing and…