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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 4th Edition
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Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 4th Edition

by Prof. Martin Christopher
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
10h 16m
English
Pearson Business
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LOGISTIC S & SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
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strengths to the overall value creation and value delivery system. This process
is being accelerated as the trend towards outsourcing continues. Outsourcing
should not be confused with ‘subcontracting’ where a task or an activity is simply
handed over to a specialist. In a way it would be better to use the term ‘in-sourc-
ing’ or ‘re-sourcing’, when we refer to the quite different concept of partnering that
the virtual supply chain depends upon. These partnerships may not be for all time
– quite possibly they exist only to exploit a specific market opportunity – but they
will be ‘seamless’ and truly synergetic.
The role of information in the virtual supply chain
Leading organisations have long ...
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