Supply Chain and Logistics Management: An Integrated Approach [Hardcover]

This textbook discusses supply chain management and provides comprehensive overview of all the key activities and issues of supply chain and logistics functions as an integrated discipline.

1 Understanding the Supply Chain: The Core Concepts

2 Evolution of Integrated Supply Chain and Logistics Management

3 Demand Estimation in a Supply Chain

4 Warehousing and Distribution Management: Complexity and Challenges

5 Managing Inventory for Satisfying Customer Demand

6 Transportation

7 Total Logistics Cost Management for Competitive Advantage

8 Sustainable Transport Logistics and Supply Chain

9 Global Logistics Value Chain Management

10 Sourcing Decision in Global Supply Chain Management

11 Supply Chain Performance Management

12 Benchmarking Supply Chain Performance

The performance of supply chain management determines the performance of the corporation itself. In retail and wholesale industries, the effectiveness of supply chain and logistics management holds the key to provide competitive advantage. This book addresses the core issues and helps the students and practitioners to take an integrated view of supply chain management areas of making decisions in a business. The book deals with global supply chain and performance management for developing a sustainable and competitive supply chain in a highly dynamic and unpredictable business environment, and discusses the subject taking many practical examples anl³Z