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The complexity of distribution systems is augmented by various trends: globalization of the manufacturing industry, rising customer demands, and the reverse flows within closed-loop systems. In this light, the need for ‘advanced’ planning methods that are based on quantitative optimization is constantly increasing. This book takes up the challenges posed by these developments. In doing so, it presents recent results and case studies from a group of researchers that regularly meet at the IWDL (International Workshop on Distribution Logistics). The text covers the design of distribution networks, vehicle routing, warehousing and reverse logistics. It also contains a comprehensive review of more than 60 case studies in reverse logistics.

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This book contains 93 selected papers from the symposium "Operations Research 2008" which was held from September 3-5, 2008 at the University of Augsburg, Germany. The international conference, which also serves as the annual meeting of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), attracted 580 participants from more than thirty countries. The general theme "Operations Research and Global Business" stresses the important role of Operations Research in improving decisions in the increasingly complex global business environment. Operations Research represents one of the most successful instruments for organizing business processes, as many applications in areas like supply chain management or financial management show. The book gives a broad overview of the various facets of Operations Research: mathematical methods such as optimization, forecasting, data analysis or game theory and their applications in business, economics and social life.

Operations research --- Industrial engineering --- System analysis --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Operations Research --- Operations research. --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Mathematics. --- Production management. --- Decision making. --- System theory. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Management science. --- Engineering economics. --- Engineering economy. --- Systems Theory, Control. --- Optimization. --- Operation Research/Decision Theory. --- Operations Management. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Operations Research, Management Science. --- Management science --- Research --- System theory --- Systems theory. --- Operations Research/Decision Theory. --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Manufacturing management --- Industrial management --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Simulation methods --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Statistical decision --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Systems, Theory of --- Systems science --- Science --- Decision making --- Philosophy