Presents a multiple‐objective mathematical programming model to co‐ordinate logistics decisions with those on the interface between the production and marketing departments. The model can help decide on an overall budget to request from senior management for logistics and these interfaces,...

Managing inventory in a multi-echelon supply chain is considerably more difficult than managing it in a single-echelon one. A strategy that optimizes inventory one echelon at a time results in excess inventory without necessarily improving service to customer. In this paper, a methodology for...

Fair Assignment of Debt Cases to Legal Debt Collection Centers -- On the Principle of Lagrange in Optimization Theory and Its Application in Transportation and Location Problems -- Measuring Foreign Trade-Logistics Efficiency: A DEA Approach and the Malmquist Index -- Partially Non-discretionary...