Cover; CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Guest editorial; Humanitarian logistics in disaster relief operations; Inventory control in environments with short lead times; Information exchange in vendor managed inventory; Participant observation in logistics research; Routing of supply vessels to petroleum installations
Summary
Annotation This e-book contains five of the best papers from the 18th annual NOFOMA conference, hosted by the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo in 2006. The theme of the conference was Logistics in the new valley .Two articles, on relief logistics and inventory control models respectively, received awards for best papers. Two further articles, amultiple case study of vendor managed inventory and a participant observation study, were considered the best papers written by research students. The final piece investigates the efficiency of supply to an off shore petroleum installation
