In order to improve profitability, freight forwarding companies try to organize their operational transportation planning systematically, considering not only their own fleet but also external resources. Such external resources include vehicles from closely related subcontractors in vertical...

The integrated operational transportation planning problem extends the traditional vehicle routing and scheduling problem by the possibility of outsourcing a part of the requests by involving subcontractors. The purpose of this paper is to present the integrated planning problem and to propose...

Purpose – The coping of demand oscillation is an important challenge in dynamic transport planning. A reliable request fulfillment must be provided even if the number of incoming requests temporarily climbs over the expected demand and resource scarceness appears. The aim of this paper is to...

Purpose – Freight carriers operating in a spot-market environment are faced with uncertain future capacity demand, actual revenues, and properties of freight items. They require information about the expected future consumption of limited capacity to derive suitable request acceptance...

Hohe Flexibilität gegenüber inhomogenen Kundenbedürfnissen, Kosteneffizienz und eine punktgenaue Lieferfähigkeit gelten als entscheidende Faktoren im globalen Wettbewerb. Damit kommt der Entwicklung leistungsfähiger Informationssysteme in der Logistik wachsende Bedeutung zu. Das Buch bietet...