Research of physical distribution operations

Corporate Forwarding is a corporate staff department of the Philips Group of Industries, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Corporate Forwarding studies physical distribution for the whole of the Philips company and advises the Group Board and individual Product Divisions, like Lighting, Consumer Electronics, Components, Medical Systems. Research activities of Corporate Forwarding are described. It is suggested that research projects of physical distribution operations, whether organizational, economic, informational or mathematical, be considered as Operations Research per se.