International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management: Volume 13 Issue 7

Industry Co‐operation: Key to Productivity in Physical Distribution

Gordon F. Bloom

Physical distribution is essentially a service function and a critical component of marketing. Generation of productivity improvement in a service function raises quite different…

A Materials Management System for a Complex Organisation

B.G. Dale

Materials management de facto has existed for many years in terms of procedures for buying and processing material to meet orders for finished products. However, the term itself…

Estimating Inter‐market Sales Movements

Ugur Yavas, Glen Riecken

Increased consumer mobility is a recurrent theme in retailing literature. A major ramification of increased mobility is that consumers are no longer restricted to their local…

Implementing a Procurement Strategy

Robert E. Spekman

Strategic discontinuities in growth and profitability over the past decade suggest that, for the most part, the traditional planning models employed by American industry are less…

Computer Systems for Distribution Planning

Alan G. Waller

A recent survey by the Centre for Physical Distribution Management in the UK identified the Distribution Strategy Simulator (DSS) as the one commercially available computer system…