Download or read book The Logistics Revolution is Logistics Management Now More Important Than Marketing written by Robert D. Tamilia and published by Montréal : Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre de recherche en gestion. This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marketing Logistics written by Martin Christopher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interface is being recognized by business organizations as a key priority for management, and both practitioners and academics alike have placed a greater emphasis on the need to view the supply chain as a whole as the vehicle by which competitive advantage is achieved. As well as drawing upon current research and the experience of firms worldwide, Marketing Logistics uses numerous 'mini-cases' and vignettes to illustrate the key messages in each chapter and bring the theory to life. This book is an invaluable resource for managers who seek to understand more about the way in which the supply chain should be managed to improve their organization's competitive position, as well as students undertaking degree-level courses in marketing, logistics and supply chain management.
Download or read book Logistics and Supply Chain Management ePub eBook written by Martin Christopher and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective development and management of a supply chain network is an invaluable source of sustainable advantage in today’s turbulent global marketplace, where demand is difficult to predict and supply chains need to be more flexible as a result. This updated 4th edition of the bestselling Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a clear-headed guide to all the key topics in an integrated approach to supply chains, including: • The link between logistics and customer value. • Logistics and the bottom line measuring costs and performance. • Creating a responsive supply chain. • Managing the global pipeline. • Managing supply chain relationships. • Managing risk in the supply chain. • Matching supply and demand. • Creating a sustainable supply chain. • Product design in the supply chain.
Download or read book The Digital Transformation of Logistics written by Mac Sullivan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital transformation is in full swing and fundamentally changes how we live, work, and communicate with each other. From retail to finance, many industries see an inflow of new technologies, disruption through innovative platform business models, and employees struggling to cope with the significant shifts occurring. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is predicted to also transform Logistics and Supply Chain Management, with delivery systems becoming automated, smart networks created everywhere, and data being collected and analyzed universally. The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution provides a holistic overview of this vital subject clouded by buzz, hype, and misinformation. The book is divided into three themed-sections: Technologies such as self-driving cars or virtual reality are not only electrifying science fiction lovers anymore, but are also increasingly presented as cure-all remedies to supply chain challenges. In The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the authors peel back the layers of excitement that have grown around new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blockchain or Cloud computing, and show use cases that give a glimpse about the fascinating future we can expect. Platforms that allow businesses to centrally acquire and manage their logistics services disrupt an industry that has been relationship-based for centuries. The authors discuss smart contracts, which are one of the most exciting applications of Blockchain, Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings for freight procurement, where numerous data sources can be integrated and decision-making processes automated, and marine terminal operating systems as an integral node for shipments. In The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, insights are shared into the cold chain industry where companies respond to increasing quality demands, and how European governments are innovatively responding to challenges of cross-border eCommerce. People are a vital element of the digital transformation and must be on board to drive change. The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution explains how executives can create sustainable impact and how competencies can be managed in the digital age - especially for sales executives who require urgent upskilling to remain relevant. Best practices are shared for organizational culture change, drawing on studies among senior leaders from the US, Singapore, Thailand, and Australia, and for managing strategic alliances with logistics service providers to offset risks and create cross-functional, cross-company transparency. The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution provides realistic insights, a ready-to-use knowledge base, and a working vocabulary about current activities and emerging trends of the Logistics industry. Intended readers are supply chain professionals working for manufacturing, trading, and freight forwarding companies as well as students and all interested parties.
Download or read book Global Logistics written by Edward Sweeney and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logistics and supply chain management is at the heart of almost every organization globally, as such, developing a well-rounded understanding of these areas has never been more important. Learn from leading sector specialists about key topics, such as supply chain leadership, resilience, technology, design, and more with this guide. Global Logistics is the comprehensive guide to understanding the international and complex landscape of modern logistics and supply chain management. The book features expertise from over 30 contributors including leading academics, such as Martin Christopher, Alan McKinnon and Steve New, and experienced consultants to leading firms, such as Alan Braithwaite and Patrick Daly. A global approach has been taken, with input from over a dozen countries, and state-of-the-art research is situated alongside expert practical guidance. Covering a range of topics from supply chain strategy, risk management and sourcing to relationship management, resilience and ethics, Global Logistics is essential for those studying or working in logistics and supply chain. Now in its 8th edition, Global Logistics is fully revised and restructured. Readers will learn how to improve logistics, supply chain management and operational effectiveness as well as how to navigate global supply chains, ensure sustainability and engineer for the future. This new edition also covers: - the impact of leadership and talent management in logistics - how to maximize the potential of technology, industry 4.0 and digitalization - the ways in which different types of performance can be measured and optimized
Download or read book Resourcing in Business Logistics written by Marianne Jahre and published by Copenhagen Business School Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about utilisation and development of logistics resources, traditional physical ones such as warehouses and vehicles and more modern ""soft"" ones such as business relationships and knowledge. Taking the starting point that the value of any resource always depends on how it is combined with other resources, the book presents ""the art of systematic combining"". Resourcing, i.e. the management of resources, is described by focusing on four important processes: the designing of resources; the influencing between those involved in the production and the using of resources; the learning between them; and the economising on resources. Based on the industrial network approach, the book presents an alternative and complementary perspective on business logistics. This book represents more than five years of research at the Norwegian School of Management, organized in a research programme called NETLOG: Logistics Networks - Studies of Strategic opportunities for industries, networks and single companies."
Download or read book Modern Logistics Management written by John F. Magee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1985-10-02 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of logistics provides a conceptual framework for understanding the logistics system, the integration of its basic elements, and its relationship to the overall firm. Discusses both manufacturing and physical distribution, new technologies in each of these areas, and how they related to each other and to the company. New topics covered range from approaches to strategic logistics planning and multi-location inventory planning, to international logistics issues and future directions. Includes case studies.
Download or read book Global Logistics And Distribution Planning written by Donald Waters and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-04-27 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fully revised new edition of this well known and respected book is characterized by the more international perspective it has taken on through contributions from internationally known authors and a final section on international logistics which examines in turn strategies for West and East Europe, the Far East and North America. Logistics has a key strategic role to play in the long-term plans of major companies, and is recognized as a vital part of every organization. To a large extent this crucial new role is due to an expanded view of logistics, which now includes all the activities related to the supply chain from initial suppliers through to final customers. This book provides a wealth of useful ideas and practical information on all the current and future trends in logistics and distribution. Written by a host of contributors drawn from industry, constancy and education, this book provides new insights into the most significant aspects of logistics, including: developments in logistics supply chain strategies lean logistics efficient customer response logistics in different countries partnering and strategic alliances re-engineering the logistics function From logistics professionals, consultants, professors and students to managers from different backgrounds who want an appreciation of current trends in the subject, this book is essential reading. About the author: Donald Waters, a past member if the Institute of Logistics and currently a member of the Canadian Association of Logistics Management, has lectured weekly on logistics, operational research and management science, and has brought his academic career to fruition as Professor of Operations Management at the University Calgary, Canada. He is also the author of Operations Management in the Kogan Page Fast Track MBA Series. Features
Download or read book Logistics Management for International Business written by S. SUDALAIMUTHU and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2009-04-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s globalised economic development, international transactions form an integral part of economic activities. Logistics Management encompasses planning and management of all activities, involving sourcing and procurement of cargo by effective and economically feasible coordination and collaboration with channel partners, and provision of product and service packages from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption at the right time and at the right place. This book gives, with theoretical and practical expertise, a comprehensive coverage of the logistic concepts, techniques, and their applications in the world cargo industry. Besides, it provides an in-depth understanding of the strategic framework of Logistics Management, the technologies, and the components used in logistic operations. It also covers export-import trade and documentations, shipping formalities, warehouse and inventory management, ERP concepts, logistics operation of major ports—and more. Key Feature : Case Studies are provided at the end of most chapters, which tend a practical orientation to the subject. This book is primarily intended as a text for postgraduate students of Management (MBA/MIB) and Commerce (M.Com.IB). It will also prove useful for the students of those engineering disciplines where the subject is prescribed as an elective course. In addition, practising managers in international business will find the book valuable as a reference
Download or read book Logistics and Supply Chain Management written by Martin Christopher and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chains and the logistics activities that drive them are critical to business success. Logistics and Supply Chain Management has 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. You’ll discover how effective development and management of supply chain networks will help businesses cut costs and enhance customer value.
Download or read book Logistics and Supply Chain Management written by Vishram Thosar and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A couple of decades ago, few companies focused on supply-chain management and logistics. Because of globalization, distribution enjoyed much of the focus. Various techniques and methods were developed to control costs and to improve sales. These past 20 years have seen growing understanding and focus on supply chain management. Today Supply Chain Management and logistics are considered mainstream in strategic planning and decision-making. Supply-chain and logistics management is leveraged to attain competitive advantage. Traditionally, the aim was to reduce costs by achieving economies of scale. However, today the focus on value creation and its delivery are in focus. Another significant change is of managing relationships with all partners of complex network chains. We may be right in saying globalization has fueled intense market competition, which has further made the markets volatile, uncertain and dynamic. These dynamic and uncertain markets demand companies to cope-up turbulent markets. Hence, companies acquire flexibility and responsive supply chains.As the actual costs of satisfying the customer are usually considerable, it is difficult to calculate these costs. Some costs are tangible and others intangible. As the costs vary company to company, sector to sector, industry to industry and region-to-region, the total costs of Managing logistical operations is 10% of total gross domestic product (GDP) of United States of America (State of Logistics). The aim and objective of a supply chain is quite simple: to match supply and demand. However, given the uncertainties it is a difficult task to achieve. Uncertainties and vast marketplace today makes it strenuous to conduct the business on forecasts. The product lifecycles are getting shorter, huge demands with variety and competitive pressures demand companies to be innovative and be able to respond to changing demands of the market in a faster way. To achieve this, companies have to be agile (adjusting to market quickly) in their processes and organizational structure. There is another technique developed by Toyota in Japan famously know as Lean Technique where companies try to have just-in-time deliveries. The aim of lean management is to eliminate waste and reduce inventories. ''Time is money'' is a cliché well versed over the world but it does hold true in business, even more for logistics management. There is a direct proportionality between the length of supply chain, inventory and cost. Companies having longer lead times are less responsive and have potential risk of losing sales. Supply chains traditionally were a group of disconnected departments, processes, activities and elements. Internal elements off of a supply chain followed a philosophy to optimize departmental efficiencies. This created gaps and differences between functions on the entities of supply chain. A smaller end-to-end supply chain is competitively easier to manage and is responsive. Information plays a vital role in making a supply chain responsive. Sharing information helps integrating supply-chains; it improves coordination and collaboration. We discuss in this book how supply chains have transformed into demand chains or supply networks. Companies guard core activities and outsource the rest. Thus, to manage this complex network, information flows are necessary. Information technology helps connecting and linking activities, processes and entities in a supply chain. Making use of technology processes are simplified reducing lead-times considerably. Information Technology helps installing information systems, which can not only improve information sharing in quick time but also analyze the data. Information systems can help in making rational decisions based on marketplace information. This further enables companies to respond to customer demands and market fluctuations in a timely manner. Supply chains are no longer a group of independently working entities; current supply chains are integrated set of processes and activities, which function in a synchronized manner. Companies source worldwide, they have the facilities like manufacturing, distribution offshore this makes it difficult manage the entire supply network.Although, globalization offers larger market space, it comes with a few challenges. Markets across the world vary and companies have to categorize and design products as per regional requirements and demands in each place. This requires excessive coordination and collaboration to manage logistical and supply chain activities.To be successful in current turbulent markets, companies need to transform their organizational structure, strategic, managerial and operational level planning. Many leading companies have radically redesigned processes to achieve significant results. Shortening of product lifecycles, has made time to market a very critical factor. Just in time and flexible manufacturing enables companies to produce as per fluctuating market demands, but companies have to develop systems, which can respond to market situations. The biggest change in recent years is that companies no longer compete as independent entities, instead the competition is on the basis of supply chains. Companies merge, acquire and takeovers have changed market conditions. A growing demand for better customer service and quality the market has changed from a supplier''s market to a buyer''s market. Most of the markets have become commodity markets, where the availability of products at lower costs with better service and quality is the expectation. Companies failing to provide any of the order winners will potentially lose the customers to the competitors. Availability of substitute products and brands increases consumers bargaining power compared to the suppliers, manufacturers. In order to understand logistics and supply chain management in a context of current market conditions and current trends a solid foundation of logistics and supply chain management is essential. This book is an attempt to highlight the changes in comparison with traditional methods. We have listed and explained basic concepts in logistics and supply chain management. It can be used as a guide to understand the role and importance of logistics and supply chain management in an organization. We have paid special attention of the context included in the book. This book focuses on the basics of logistical and supply chain concepts, recent advancements and new philosophies used. The book''s language has been kept simple to make sure understanding of concepts is easy. The chapters of this book are arranged in a manner, starting from basics of supply chain management and logistics. Initial chapters focus on supply chain management nd logistics management understanding and a comparison between old ways of looking at SCM and logistics and recent changes brought in outlook.As we move ahead with chapters we have tried to detail almost all-important aspects and elements playing role in supply chain management, their contribution and impacts on logistics and SCM. We hope this book meets reader''s expectations and helps readers to understand, ascertain the concepts of SCM and logistics.
Download or read book The Deadly Life of Logistics written by Deborah Cowen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war. In The Deadly Life of Logistics, Cowen traces the art and science of logistics over the last sixty years, from the battlefield to the boardroom and back again. Focusing on choke points such as national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities, she tracks contemporary efforts to keep goods circulating and brings to light the collective violence these efforts produce. She investigates how the old military art of logistics played a critical role in the making of the global economic order—not simply the globalization of production, but the invention of the supply chain and the reorganization of national economies into transnational systems. While reshaping the world of production and distribution, logistics is also actively reconfiguring global maps of security and citizenship, a phenomenon Cowen charts through the rise of supply chain security, with its challenge to long-standing notions of state sovereignty and border management. Though the object of corporate and governmental logistical efforts is commodity supply, The Deadly Life of Logistics demonstrates that they are deeply political—and, considered in the context of the long history of logistics, deeply indebted to the practice of war.
Download or read book Logistics Management written by David B. Grant and published by Financial Times/Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new book, Logistics Management, blends traditional logistics activities with the current developments in business that have made logistics a critical element for business success. It adopts a customer or marketing focus to the subject of logistics, and the wider concept of supply chain management, by recognizing that customer satisfaction is the primary output of logistics activities. The theme of global logistics integrated throughout the current edition will also continue and will be enhanced by discussion of the dichotomy that the European market represents both a common and global environment."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Logistics Management and Strategy written by Alan Harrison and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2019 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Journal of Logistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logistics Management written by Hans-Christian Pfohl and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the drivers of the development of logistics, the success factors of logistics management in excellent companies are analyzed. Logistics management in and between companies requires a change in thinking on the operational as well as on the strategic and normative level of action. The functions of logistics management are explained in detail and discussed with regard to their design. The explanations are based on the presentation of the interplay of the normative, strategic and operational levels of action and the contribution of logistics to the achievement of corporate objectives. Essential building blocks for the implementation of the logistics conception are strategic logistics planning and logistics controlling. In addition to the organizational and operational issues, supply chain management is becoming increasingly important for the interorganizational realization of the logistics conception: because it is precisely from cooperation and collaboration that additional potential for sustainable value enhancement of the company through logistics arises. In order to exploit these potentials, it is important to promote suitable employees in a targeted manner. Therefore, the book concludes with a consideration of the special aspects of personnel management in logistics. On the one hand, the book addresses the practitioner who wants to profitably implement the conceptions presented here. On the other hand, it is aimed at lecturers at universities, colleges and academies to support their courses. Students interested in the management-related issues of logistics will find valuable information for their studies and future professional activities. The author Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Christian Pfohl conducts research at the Technical University of Darmstadt, particularly in the field of logistics/supply chain management. He also holds a professorship at the Chinese-German University College of Tongji University Shanghai, China. As a visiting professor, he teaches at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Logistics Association (ELA) and is head of the ELA Research Committee.
Download or read book The Logistic Revolution written by Richard Vahrenkamp and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Logistic Revolution, Richard Vahrenkamp discusses the political and economic factors which have led to the rise of logistics in Europe in the context of the mass consumption society. Not only does he show the ascent of truck transport in the 1920s to satisfy consumer needs and the importance of the European motorway infrastructure for the development of modern logistics, he also sheds light on the dimension that freight transport has acquired in Europe and on the organizations that have been created in Europe to enable and facilitate cross border goods transports. Other than in the US, the national transport markets in Europe were initially uncoordinated. It was only in the process of European unification that transport markets for truck freight and associated logistics systems became Europe wide. This change was accompanied by the struggle between rail and truck.
