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Reconfiguration of supply chains and implications for transport

Title: Reconfiguration of supply chains and implications for transport
Category: /Science & Technology/Transportation
Details: Words: 7543 | Pages: 27 (approximately 235 words/page)
Reconfiguration of supply chains and implications for transport
Keywords Supply chain management, Distribution systems, Distribution operations, Distribution management, Freight forwarding, Transport management Abstract A large number of firms have reconfigured their supply chains. The general trends entail, among others, the reduction, centralization and re-location of plants and distribution centers, the design of new distribution systems, and the reduction of the supplier base. The analysis of the implications of such reconfiguration for freight transport has received comparatively little attention, and most of the analysis …showed first 75 words of 7543 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 7543 total…Sulogtra (2002), "Supply chain management trends impact on freight transport system", Sulogtra Deliverable Report, No. D4, Work Package No. 3, Van Hoek, R.I., Vos, B. and Commandeur, H.R. (1999), "Restructuring European supply chains by implementing postponement strategies", Long Range Planning, Vol. 32 No. 5, pp. 505-18. Wandel, S. and Ruijgrok, C. (1993), "Innovation and structural changes in logistics: a theoretical framework", in Giannopoulos, G. and Gillespie, A. (Eds), Transport and Communications Innovation in Europe, Belhaven Press, London, pp. 233-58.

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