This is the second part of our special issue comprising research from the ScientificGroup of Logistics, Association of University Professors in Management. Thefundamental goals of the Scientific Group of Logistics are the promotion of logistics inacademic research and education as well as the...

This e-book contains two papers from the 19th NOFOMA (Nordic Logistics Research Network) conference, arranged by the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2007. The last two articles in this issue were submitted directly to the journal and were not part of the NOFOMA conference....

Einführung in die Vertriebsarbeit für Logistikdienstleister -- Anforderungen an Vertriebsmitarbeiter -- Zentraler Vertrieb und Unterstützung der Vertriebsarbeit im Feld -- Strukturen der Vertriebsarbeit -- Vertriebssteuerung und Vertriebscontrolling.

Purpose - A program of shipment consolidation (SCL) is the purposeful intervention by management to regularly combine several small shipments so that a larger load may be dispatched on the same vehicle. SCL decisions traditionally have been based upon minimization of total logistics costs...