SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY: The Logistics of Supply Chain Management
teaches the best practices and basics in logistics and supply
chain management. The book is richly illustrated with 238 figures
featuring logistics principles in action at the world’s best
logistics organizations. In a conversational style, the book presents
best-practice, common-sense, high-tech, high-touch, and analytical solutions
for logistics challenges spanning the entire supply chain. From customer service
to inventory planning to supply to transportation to warehousing, Supply
Chain Strategy puts the logic back in logistics!
The book is organized according to Dr. Edward Frazelle’s Logistics
Master Planning methodology for developing supply chain strategy. Three
major sections address the investigation, innovation, and implementation of
logistics solutions to supply chain problems. In so doing, the book presents
simultaneously a methodology for planning and managing logistics activities
while illustrating world-class practices and systems in use by logistics
organizations around the globe. In addition, each chapter stands alone in
addressing the major issues in logistics data mining, logistics performance
measurement, customer response, inventory planning and management,
supply management, transportation, warehousing, logistics information systems,
and logistics organization design and development.