Potentials for Efficiency Increase in Modern Freight Forwarding

The freight forwarding market has become extremely demanding for the professional carriers in a road transport. Apart from decreasing prices and increasing competition, freight forwarders have to cope with the fact that demands fluctuate on a short-term basis and that fast adjustments to the constan...

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Main Author: Krajewska, Marta Anna. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag : Imprint: Gabler Verlag, 2008.
Edition:1st ed. 2008.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9623-7
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Table of Contents:
  • Integrated operational transportation planning
  • Integrated operational transportation planning in practice
  • Integrated operational transportation planning in theory
  • Integrated operational transportation planning in a profit centre
  • Solving the integrated operational transportation planning problem
  • Long-term issues for integrated operational transportation planning
  • Collaborative planning
  • Collaboration in practice
  • Collaboration in theory
  • Modeling collaboration of profit centers
  • Verification of collaboration profitability
  • Conclusions.