"Logistics management is one of the primal topics of Industrial Engineering. This book is the second volume of a three-volume series on global logistic management and focuses on recent developments and implementations of operations research techniques on some selected logistic problems in...

One of the more visible and often controversial effects of globalization is the rising trend in global sourcing, commonly referred to as outsourcing, offshoring or offshore outsourcing. Today, many organizations experience the necessity of growing globally in order to remain profitable and...