A unique treatment of the transshipment operation and processes on the shipment of automobiles from the Bremerhaven harbor, Germany. The book is an analytical, theoretical, and practical work that incorporates Network Optimization, Logistics, Distribution, Transportation, and Supply Chain Management into a framework of Information Systems for a comprehensive understanding of the development of transshipment terminals in the global economy. More specifically, the book examines transshipment terminals and how they can be made more efficient.

The Management of Transshipment Terminals: Decision Support for Terminal Operations in Finished Vehicle Supply Chains is a unique treatment of the transshipment operation and processes on the shipment of automobiles from the Bremerhaven harbor, Germany. It is an analytical, theoretical, and practical work that incorporates Network Optimization, Logistics, Distribution, Transportation, and Supply Chain Management into a framework of Information Systems for a comprehensive understanding of the development of transshipment terminals in the global economy. More specifically, the book examines the function of transshipment terminals and how they can be made more effective and efficient. In sum, the book is a novel treatment of a developing area in the global supply chain economy; and as such, it is an illustrated example of the manifestation of elements within the field of Operations Management on the increasing integration of the transportation logistic system.

Production scheduling dictates highly constrained mathematical models with complex and often contradicting objectives. Evolutionary algorithms can be formulated almost independently of the detailed shaping of the problems under consideration. As one would expect, a weak formulation of the problem in the algorithm comes along with a quite inefficient search. This book discusses the suitability of genetic algorithms for production scheduling and presents an approach which produces results comparable with those of more tailored optimization techniques.

Die enorme Beschleunigung des Warenaustausches, die weltweite Globalisierung und Vernetzung erzeugen unternehmensubergreifende Wertschopfungsnetzwerke. Zunehmend unterstutzen so genannte Advanced Planning Systems (APS) Entscheidungen im Liefernetz- und Logistikmanagement. Das Buch prasentiert Beispiele zur Nutzung quantitativer Methoden in Supply Chain Management und Logistik aus den Bereichen Operations Research und Wirtschaftsinformatik."

Innerhalb moderner Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme fA1/4r Supply Chain Management und Logistik stehen heute erstmals groAe Mengen an digitalen, strukturierten Daten zur VerfA1/4gung. Diese bilden eine hervorragende Basis fA1/4r den Einsatz quantitativer Methoden bei der EntscheidungsunterstA1/4tzung. Durch State-of-the-Art-Technologien des Operations Research kAnnen heute sehr groAe Praxismodelle optimal gelAst und die Ergebnisse nahtlos in die Informations- und Kommunikationssysteme eines Unternehmens oder einer Lieferkette eingebunden werden. DarA1/4ber hinaus ist der Einsatz von Optimierungsverfahren heute nicht nur in der Planungsphase, sondern auch in der AusfA1/4hrung mAglich. Das Buch prAsentiert Beispiele zur Nutzung quantitativer Methoden in Supply Chain Management und Logistik aus den Bereichen des Operations Research und der Wirtschaftsinformatik.