Book description
Effective development and management of supply chain networks helps businesses cut costs and enhance customer value. This 5th edition provides the most up-to-date practical tools to manage the people and processes that allow businesses to gain and maintain competitive advantage through their supply chains.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Contents
- Dedication
- About the author
- Preface
- Publisher’s acknowledgements
- 1 Logistics, the supply chain and competitive strategy
- 2 Delivering customer value
- 3 Going to market
- 4 Measuring logistics costs and performance
- 5 Matching supply and demand
- 6 Creating the responsive supply chain
- 7 Strategic lead-time management
- 8 The synchronous supply chain
- 9 Complexity and the supply chain
- 10 Managing the global pipeline
- 11 Service logistics
- 12 Managing risk in the supply chain
- 13 The era of network competition
- 14 Overcoming the barriers to supply chain integration
- 15 Creating a sustainable supply chain
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16 The supply chain of the future
- Emerging mega-trends
- Shifting centres of gravity
- Supply chain governance and compliance
- The need for adaptability
- Seeking structural flexibility
- 2020 vision
- Waste in the supply chain
- The New Industrial Revolution
- Seven major business transformations
- The implications for tomorrow’s logistics managers
- What did you think of this book?
- Index
- Endorsements
- imprint
Product information
- Title: Logistics & Supply Chain Management, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2016
- Publisher(s): FT Publishing International
- ISBN: 9781292083827
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