This contributed volume presents selected research papers from the 8th workshop on Logistics and Supply Chain Management, which was held in October 2013 in Berkeley, California. It focuses on the topical issue of quantitative approaches in logistics and supply chain management, mainly covering facility location and location routing; vehicle routing and scheduling; courier, express and parcel se…
This book further discusses in detail the production system concept, facility location, plant layout design, production scheduling, mass production techniques such as assembly line balancing maintenance planning and control, quality control and modern production management tools that include CIM, TQM,TPM and ISO 9000 & 14000 Series. Primarily designed as a textbook for various courses like BBM,…
Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl.