Economic Logistics: The Optimization of Spatial and Sectoral Resource, Production, and Distribution Systems

by Sten Thore

This work uses techniques of optimization and operations research to develop the first comprehensive survey of the entire field of the optimization of resource, production, and distribution systems. Sten Thore proposes an economic logistics that is similar to the well-known concept of military logistics, but which is expanded to include such features as the optimal location of plants, inventories and retail outlets, and the management of hierarchical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854046631
• ISBN13: 9780899305936
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.5"