Global logistics : new directions in supply chain management /
Global logistics : new directions in supply chain management /
[edited by] Donald Waters and Stephen Rinsler.
- Seventh edition.
- xxiv, 488 p. ; ill. 24 cm
Includes index.
New directions in logistics -- Best practices in logistics and supply chain management: the case of central and Eastern Europe -- Trends and strategies in global logistics and supply chain management -- Incentives and the strategic management of suppliers -- Time compression in the supply chain -- Building more agile supply chains -- Using marketing and logistics to fulfill customer needs -- People powering contemporary supply chains -- Linking supply chain management to shareholder value -- Outsourcing: the result of global supply chains? -- Risk in the supply chains -- Managing supply vulnerability -- Information systems and information technologies for supply chain management -- Improving management of supply chains by information technology -- Delivering sustainability through supply chain management -- Performance measurement and management in the supply chain -- Optimizing the movement of freight by road -- Retail logistics -- Internet traders can increase profitability by reshaping their supply chains -- Time as a trade barrier -- Learning from humanitarian supply chains -- Global sourcing and supply -- International road and rail freight transport activity -- Developments in Western European strategies --Recent development of e-tailing and its logistics in China -- Logistics strategies for central and Eastern Europe -- North American logistics.
9780749471330
2014025413
Physical distribution of goods.
Business logistics.
HF5415.6 / .G55 2015
658.7
Includes index.
New directions in logistics -- Best practices in logistics and supply chain management: the case of central and Eastern Europe -- Trends and strategies in global logistics and supply chain management -- Incentives and the strategic management of suppliers -- Time compression in the supply chain -- Building more agile supply chains -- Using marketing and logistics to fulfill customer needs -- People powering contemporary supply chains -- Linking supply chain management to shareholder value -- Outsourcing: the result of global supply chains? -- Risk in the supply chains -- Managing supply vulnerability -- Information systems and information technologies for supply chain management -- Improving management of supply chains by information technology -- Delivering sustainability through supply chain management -- Performance measurement and management in the supply chain -- Optimizing the movement of freight by road -- Retail logistics -- Internet traders can increase profitability by reshaping their supply chains -- Time as a trade barrier -- Learning from humanitarian supply chains -- Global sourcing and supply -- International road and rail freight transport activity -- Developments in Western European strategies --Recent development of e-tailing and its logistics in China -- Logistics strategies for central and Eastern Europe -- North American logistics.
9780749471330
2014025413
Physical distribution of goods.
Business logistics.
HF5415.6 / .G55 2015
658.7