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The Impact of New Supply Chain Management Practices on the Decision Tools Required by the Trucking Industry

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Applications of Supply Chain Management and E-Commerce Research

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For the last twenty years or so, the freight transportation industry has been facing new challenges such as time-sensitive industrial and commercial practices as well as the globalization of markets. During the same period, new information-related technologies have developed rapidly: Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and the Internet, Global Positioning Systems via satellites (GPS) and Decision Support Systems (DSS). These technologies can greatly enhance the operations planning capability of freight carriers in as much as they make use of this information in order to optimize their operations. GPS, EDI and the Internet can also provide the necessary information required to achieve real-time computer-based decision making using appropriate operations research techniques. Today's decision support tools must therefore be designed to be used in a real-time environment. We describe this environment and propose optimization tools that can be made available to motor carriers.

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    Joseph Geunes , Elif Akçali , Panos M. Pardalos , H. Edwin Romeijn  & Zuo-Jun Max Shen , , ,  & 

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Roy, J. (2005). The Impact of New Supply Chain Management Practices on the Decision Tools Required by the Trucking Industry. In: Geunes, J., Akçali, E., Pardalos, P.M., Romeijn, H.E., Shen, ZJ.M. (eds) Applications of Supply Chain Management and E-Commerce Research. Applied Optimization, vol 92. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23392-X_4

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