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Logistics Management and Strategy Alan Harrison

Logistics Management and Strategy By Alan Harrison

Logistics Management and Strategy by Alan Harrison


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Summary

Encourage your students to think beyond the small picture, considering the global industry in logistic management.

Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing through the Supply Chain explores the value of logistics management in the modern industry at international level, considering common issues and solutions with a range of case examples.

Logistics Management and Strategy Summary

Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing through the Supply Chain by Alan Harrison

Deepen your understanding of logistics management and get a handle on real problems and solutions on the global scene.

Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing Through the Supply Chain; 6th edition by Alan Harrison and Remko Van Hoek is an internationally appealing textbook which provides a comprehensive study and explanation of logistics solutions and Supply Chain Management with a clear European foundation.

Ideal for MSc students, the text provides in-depth coverage of the most up-to-date topics, including the challenges of coordinating manufacturing and retail processes, a review of leveraging logistics operations, and future challenges in logistics.

Key features of this edition include:

  • Cases from all over the world, including places outside of Europe such as South Africa, China and Australia
  • A focus on learning in line with the globalisation of logistics
  • Consideration of modern problems and solutions to real-life logistics management issues

This book provides all the necessary information to cultivate your understanding of logistics management at an international level, recommended to anyone studying for an MSc degree or open learning course.

About Alan Harrison

Alan Harrison was Professor of Operations and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management, and Director of Research at The Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Heather Skipworth is Senior Lecturer at Cranfield School of Management, The Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Remko van Hoek is a Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansas in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. He is also Chief Procurement Officer at GDF SUEZ/Cofely the Netherlands.

James Aitken is a Professor in Operations Management at University of Surrey.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • How to use this book
  • Plan of the book
  • Part One COMPETING THROUGH LOGISTICS
  • 1 Logistics and the supply chain
  • 2 Putting the end-customer first
  • 3 Value and logistics costs
  • Part Two LEVERAGING LOGISTICS OPERATIONS
  • 4 Managing logistics internationally
  • 5 Managing the lead-time frontier
  • 6 Supply chain planning and control
  • 7 Lean thinking and agile supply chains
  • Part Three WORKING TOGETHER
  • 8 Integrating the supply chain
  • 9 Sourcing and procurement
  • Part Four CHANGING THE FUTURE
  • 10 Logistics future challenges and opportunities
  • Index

Additional information

NGR9781292183688
9781292183688
1292183683
Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing through the Supply Chain by Alan Harrison
New
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2019-06-17
496
N/A
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