International Journal of Physical Distribution: Volume 7 Issue 5

The Development of a Decision Making Framework For Logistics Management

R. Gregson

An Aid to Decision Making Following on from the earlier article in the previous issue of this Journal, when the systems approach to logistics decision making was introduced, this…

Problems and Policies Affecting the Small Shop

John A. Dawson, David A. Kirby

Since the early 1970s considerable interest has been focussed, by a variety of bodies in many countries, on the problems faced by small shop operators. The result has been an…

Using the Principle of Postponement—Speculation to Analyse Channel Change

Charles W. Lamb

In 1967, Louis P. Bucklin proposed the principle of postponement‐speculation as a basis for predicting and explaining the existence of speculative inventories in the marketing…

A Comparative Profile of the United States and Canadian Distribution Managers

Bernard J. La Londe, Douglas M. Lambert

For more than two decades, industrial leaders in many countries, especially the trading nations such as the United States and Canada, have recognised the significant contribution…

Accounting Analysis of Distribution Activities—A Critique

R.E. Shirley

Distribution costs have a significant impact on product prices as they can represent as much as 60 per cent of the cost of consumer goods. A paucity of research and scholarly…

Physical Distribution: Has It Reached Maturity?

James C. Johnson, Donald L. Borger

In 1966, Professor Donald J. Bowersox mused that the acceptance of the physical distribution (logistics) concept was in “semi‐maturity”. The question then becomes—now, more than a…

Computer Scheduling of Beer Tanker Deliveries

J.L. Crawford, G.B. Sinclair

Recently Foster and Ryan developed a new method for the vehicle scheduling problem (VSP). This article applies their method to a practical VSP involving the delivery of…