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Logistics Management and Strategy 5th edition - Alan Harrison, Remko Van Hoek, Heather Skipworth

Logistics Management and Strategy 5th edition

Competing through the Supply Chain
Buch | Softcover
464 Seiten
2014 | 5th edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-1-292-00415-0 (ISBN)
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Listed as one of the top ten supply chain books of all time on www.supplychainopz.com!

 

A concise, applied and strategic introduction to the subject of logistics and supply chain management, perfect for modern managers and students of logistics and supply chain management.

 

Logistics and supply chain management continue to transform the competitive landscape and have become one of today’s key business issues. This fifth edition of Logistics Management and Strategy continues to take a practical, integrated and international approach to logistics, and includes the very latest research to reflect the innovative and exciting developments in this subject area.

 

A clear framework guides the reader through the four parts of the book, covering;



an introduction to logistics and its contribution to competitiveness and value creation,
leveraging logistics operations within the context of the customer
supplier partnerships, interfaces and the challenges of integration
leading-edge thinking in logistics and the future challenges ahead

This new edition contains;

 

·    15+ new cases (including Heineken, Unilever and Johnson and Johnson)
- coverage of disaster logistics and Corporate Social Responsibility from the supply chain perspective
- discussion of global governance of the supply chain
- even more coverage on value and logistics costs and segmented supply chain strategy, equipping the reader with the latest thinking

 

 

'Well written and contains a wealth of valuable ideas and concepts.' – Dr Jan de Vries, University of Groningen

'Very up-to-date, both in terms of its conceptual framework and the topics covered.  Remarkably clear and easy to read.' – Dr Tony Whiteing, University of Huddersfield

 

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.

Remko van Hoek is visiting Professor of Supply Chain Management at The Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He is also Chief Procurement Officer at GDF SUEZ/Cofely the Netherlands.

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

Contents

Foreword xiii

Preface   xv

Authors’ acknowledgements xvii

Publisher’s acknowledgements xix

How to use this book xxi

Plan of the book xxiii

Part One COMPETING THROUGH LOGISTICS

1   Logistics and the supply chain    3

Introduction 3

1.1 Logistics and the supply chain    4

   1.1.1  Definitions and concepts 6

   1.1.2  Supply chain: structure and tiering   8

1.2 Material flow and information flow 12

   1.2.1  Material flow 12

   1.2.2  Information flow 15

1.3 Competing through logistics 16

   1.3.1  Hard objectives 17

   1.3.2  Supportive capabilities   19

   1.3.3  Soft objectives   25

   1.3.4  Order winners and qualifiers   26

1.4 Logistics strategy    27

   1.4.1  Defining ‘strategy’   28

   1.4.2  Aligning strategies    29

   1.4.3  Differentiating strategies   30

   1.4.4  Trade-offs in logistics    31

Summary    32

Discussion questions    33

References    33

Suggested further reading   34

2   Putting the end-customer first   35

Introduction   35

2.1 The marketing perspective    36

   2.1.1  Rising customer expectations 37

   2.1.2  The information revolution 37

2.2 Segmentation   38

2.3 Demand profiling   46

2.4 Quality of service 50

   2.4.1  Customer loyalty   51

   2.4.2  Value disciplines   53

   2.4.3  Relationship marketing and customer relationship management (CRM)    53

   2.4.4  Measuring service quality    56

2.5 Setting priorities for logistics strategy   56

   2.5.1  Step 1: Diagnose current approach to market segmentation    58

   2.5.2  Step 2a: Understand buying behaviour 59

   2.5.3  Step 2b: Customer value analysis 60

   2.5.4  Step 3: Measure logistics strategy drivers 60

   2.5.5  Step 4: Specify future approach to market segmentation 63

Summary    68

Discussion questions    69

References    70

Suggested further reading   71

3   Value and logistics costs   73

Introduction 73

3.1 Where does value come from?   74

   3.1.1  Return on investment (ROI)    75

   3.1.2  Financial ratios and ROI drivers    77

3.2 How can logistics costs be represented? 79

   3.2.1  Fixed/variable    81

   3.2.2  Direct/indirect    85

   3.2.3  Engineered/discretionary   87

3.3 Activity-based costing (ABC) 89

   3.3.1  ABC example    91

   3.3.2  Cost–time profile (CTP)    92

   3.3.3  Cost-to-serve (CTS)    94

3.4 A balanced measurement portfolio   95

   3.4.1  Balanced measures 96

   3.4.2  Supply chain management and the balanced scorecard 97

   3.4.3  Supply chain financial model    99

3.5 Supply

Verlagsort Harlow
Sprache englisch
Maße 191 x 246 mm
Gewicht 874 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Logistik / Produktion
ISBN-10 1-292-00415-0 / 1292004150
ISBN-13 978-1-292-00415-0 / 9781292004150
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