Method for the Assessment of Potential in Distribution Logistics

Besides in production – where optimization is often used- also optimization of distribution logistics has a great potential for increasing competitiveness of companies. When searching for optimization, also in the distribution logistics numerous interactions must be considered. Companies have to search for the potentials of improvement with as little expenditure as possible and weigh them. For the assessment of the potentials, companies require an adequate method. Hence, in this paper a description of the demand for research will be given as well as an outline of the procedure for development of a suitable method which can be performed quickly and with reasonable expenditure and which considers the interactions.