International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management: Volume 10 Issue 4

Modular Data Base System: An Appraisal of its Usefulness in Physical Distribution Costing

T.F. Barrett

The modular data base approach has been developed as an accounting device since 1972, when the American Accounting Association published the findings of the committee which it had…

Management Control over Customer Service

Philip B. Schary

Control over customer service can only be partial at best. If service is an adaptation of one system, the supplier's, to fit another, then the customer's part of the combined…

International Marketing: The Role of Physical Distribution Management

Alan Slater

Philip Kotler identified the term “marketing” with two different but related processes; the first dealing with “the search for and stimulation of buyers” and the second with “the…

The Importance of Logistics in the UK Economy

Angela Childerley

In recent years, interest in logistics has been growing rapidly, mainly because it is believed to be one of the few areas remaining in business where substantial economies may be…

Growth, Product Lines and Realistic Inventory Turns

Robert R. Britney

In comparing results across organisations, inventory turnovers often provide a simple, useful and pragmatic utilisation measure of this working asset. Managers, however, must take…