1: Supply Chain Management -- Examining Supply Chains from Practice -- Valuing Time in Make-to-stock Manufacturing: Calculating the Limits of Time-based Competition -- Internal Pricing in Supply Chains -- 2: Reverse Logistics -- Closed-loop Supply Chains -- Extended Design Principles for Closed Loop Supply Chains: Optimising Economic, Logistic and Environment al Performance -- A Behavioral Approach for Logistics System Analy sis and Design: A Reverse Logisti cs Case -- Performance of MRP in Product Recovery Systems with Demand, Return and Leadtime Uncertainties -- One and Two Way Packaging in the Dairy Sector -- 3: Distribution Logistics and E-Commerce -- The Logistics Behind the Enter Click -- Distribution Planning with Specific Delivery Time Restrictions for the Handling of Electronic Customer Orders in Food/Non-Food Retail Trade -- An Analysis of a Combinatorial Auction -- 4: Warehouse Location and Network Planning -- The Practice of Distribution Network Planning: Coping with Shortcomings in Important Data Quality -- A Greedy Heuristic for a Three-level Multi-period Single-sourcing Problem -- Combinatorial Optimisation Problems of the Assignment Type and a Partitioning Apprach -- 5: Vehicle Routing and Transportation -- The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Simultaneous Pick-up and Delivery -- The Application of a Vehicle Routing Model to a Waste Collection Problem: Two Case Studies -- Strategic Vehicle Routing Problems in Practice - A pure Software Problem or a Problem Requiring Scientific Advice? Routing Problems of Daily Deliveries to the Same Customers -- 6: Warehousing -- Design of a 2-Stations Automated Guided Vehicle System -- On-line versus Off-line Control with Multi-load Vehicles -- 7: Inventory Control -- Average Costs versus Net Present Value: A Comparison for Multi-source Inventory Models -- Safety Stocks in Capacity-constrained Production Systems -- Approximations for the Waiting Time in (8, nQ)-Inventory Models for Different Types of Consolidation Policies -- List of Contributors.