Implications of Cost-Service Trade-offs on Industry Logistics Structures

Donald B. Rosenfield, Roy D. Shapiro and Roger E. Bohn
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Donald B. Rosenfield: Arthur D. Little, Incorporated, 25 Acorn Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140, and Sloan School of Management, MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Roy D. Shapiro: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163
Roger E. Bohn: Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163

Interfaces, 1985, vol. 15, issue 6, 47-59

Abstract: The characteristics of the technology and markets within an industry will affect the range of logistics systems observed in that industry. In some industries the range is wide, while in others all firms make the same logistics choices. This paper explores these differences. We propose the concept of an efficient frontier of cost-service choices and show how firms align themselves along the frontier.

Keywords: manufacturing; strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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