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Title:

Supply Chain Broker Operations: Network Perspective

Accession Number:

01338044

Record Type:

Component

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Order URL: http://worldcat.org/isbn/9780309167352

Abstract:

A network analysis of spot-market broker operations in supply chain management is presented with a case study of a brokerage firm. By modeling the connections between brokers and vendors, users can define metrics that correlate the strategies to select the vendors with profitability, which identifies new operating policies. Profitability is affected not only by the number of interactions between brokers and vendors but also by the quality of those interactions. The quality of interactions is quantified. The extent to which this approach can yield operating policy guidelines and serve as a tool to evaluate broker performance is demonstrated.

Monograph Accession #:

01353537

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-1544

Language:

English

Authors:

Huang, Michael
Homem-de-Mello, Tito
Smilowitz, Karen
Driegert, Bill

Pagination:

pp 1-7

Publication Date:

2011

Serial:

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Issue Number: 2224
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

9780309167352

Media Type:

Print

Features:

Figures (2) ; References (14) ; Tables (2)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Brokers; Vendors

Subject Areas:

Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 5:50PM

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