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Tradeoffs among logistics cost and service elements often maketransport selection analysis difficult, especially when demand isuncertain and carriers offer different rates and services. Thespreadsheet environment offers a powerful, managerfriendly medium foranalysing these tradeoffs. This microcomputer application exploits someof the recent advances in spreadsheet technology to provide transportbuyers with a tool for evaluating such complex logistical tradeoffs.This tool demonstrates how the emerging spreadsheet technology makes itrelatively easy to develop a computerbased model that can capture arich level of detail that is beyond the scope of the current transportselection models using analytical approaches.
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management – Emerald Publishing
Published: Jul 1, 1991
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