Farahani 2011 Logistics Operations And Management Concepts And Models

Logistics Operations and Management

Logistics Operations and Management
Concepts and Models

Reza Zanjirani Farahani

Informatics and Operations Management Kingston Business School Kingston University, Kingston Hill Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7LB

Shabnam Rezapour Laleh Kardar

Industrial Engineering Department, Urmia University of Technology, Urmia, Iran

Department ofIndustrial Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

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List of Contributors

Maryam Abbasi Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Hamid Afshari Iran Khodro Industrial Group (IKCO), Iran Shokoofeh Asadi Industrial Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Mohammad BakhshayeshiBaygi Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Concordia, Montreal, Canada Fatemeh Hajipouran Benam Iran Khodro Industrial Group (IKCO), Iran Farzaneh Daneshzand Department of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Wout Dullaert Institute of Transport and Maritime Management Antwerp, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Antwerp MaritimeAcademy, Antwerp, Belgium

Mohammad Hassan Ebrahimi Terminal Management System Department, InfoTech International Company, Tehran, Iran Gholamreza Esmaeilian Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia and Department of Industrial Engineering, Payam Noor Universiti, Iran Behnam Fahimnia School of Management, Division of Business,...