INTRODUCTION Customer orders in international supply networks can have different importance due to e.g. various order sizes or customer values (Pardoe, Stone 2005). Thus, customer orders should be assessed and treated individually in order to distinct between more or less profitable ones, as creating superior customer value is a key element for companies' suc-This concept explicitly focuses on ...

This volume is a collection of commissioned contributions, edited by James H Bookbinder, to follow up on a special issue of the journal Transportation Research E, edited by the same editor, which focused on Global Logistics. One of the goals of this volume is to have perspectives of logistics researchers in different geographic areas. Part I consists of four chapters. The first chapter by Chen ...

Abstract The distribution–allocation problem is known as one of the most comprehensive strategic decisions. In real-world cases, it impossible to solve a completely in acceptable time. This forces researchers develop efficient heuristic techniques for large-term operation whole supply chain. These provide near optimal solution and are comparably fast particularly large-scale test problems. pape...