Global Logistics: New Directions in Supply Chain Management, Seventh Edition
- 9h 33m
- Donald Waters, Stephen Rinsler (eds)
- Kogan Page
- 2014
The world of logistics is constantly evolving, so this new edition represents the current trends, best practice and latest thinking in global logistics. It serves as a forum allowing the contributors, a range of acknowledged sector specialists, to discuss key logistics issues and share their authoritative views. This new edition includes guidance on collaboration; energy and its relationship to logistics; sustainability in a wider sense; outsourcing; and humanitarian logistics.
About the Editors
Donald Waters has written several books on logistics and operations management. He is a chartered member of the Institute of Logistics and Transport and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport. He has lectured extensively in the area and was until recently Professor of Operations Management at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is now a visiting professor at universities in Europe and the United States, and runs a company that is centered around management research and education.
Stephen Rinsler is a Director of Bisham Consulting, the immediate past Chairman of the Board and Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), a Vice President and Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport International, a past chair of the CILT Supply Chain Faculty and a visiting Fellow of the Royal Military College of Science. He is an honorary Professor of Logistics and Engineering at the University of Nanjing, PR China.
In this Book
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Global Logistics—New Directions in Supply Chain Management, Seventh Edition
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Contributors
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Preface
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New directions in logistics
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Best practices in logistics and supply chain management: the case of Central and Eastern Europe
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Trends and strategies in global logistics and supply chain management
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Incentives and the strategic management of suppliers
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Time compression in the supply chain
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Building more agile supply chains
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Using marketing and logistics to fulfil customer needs
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People powering contemporary supply chains
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Linking supply chain management to shareholder value
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Outsourcing: the result of global supply chains?
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Risk in the supply chain
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Managing supply chain vulnerability
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Information systems and information technologies for supply chain management
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Improving management of supply chains by information technology
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Delivering sustainability through supply chain management
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Performance measurement and management in the supply chain
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Optimizing the movement of freight by road
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Retail logistics
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Internet traders can increase profitability by reshaping their supply chains
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Time as a trade barrier
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Learning from humanitarian supply chains
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Global sourcing and supply
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International road and rail freight transport activity
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Developments in Western European strategies
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Recent development of e-tailing and its logistics in China
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Logistics strategies for Central and Eastern Europe
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North American logistics
