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Logistics & Supply Chain Management: creating value-adding networks (3rd Edition) (Financial Times Series)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.5
EAN: 9780273681762
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0273681761
Label: FT Press
Manufacturer: FT Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: February 24, 2005
Publisher: FT Press
Studio: FT Press
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Editorial Review:
Logistics management is increasingly being seen as a source of competitive strength. Its effective use provides potential for cost reduction and the opportunity for increasing market share. The second edition discusses the role of logistics in achieving corporate and financial goals. Updated and expanded with more checklists, more short cases and executive summaries, this is an invaluable guide for all logistics and distribution managers.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Over the top
This book by Martin Christopher, is one of the better if not among the best books on supply chain management. Written by Professor Martin Christopher of the Cranfield School of Management, the book deals particularly with best practices in supply chain management in the current era of globalization. Responsiveness, reliability and relationships are the basis for successful logistics and supply chain management. Strategies like Just-In-Time (JIT), Lean and Agile thinking are reviewed, and last not ... Read More
Rating:  - Boring book
Keeps repeating the same things over and over using different words. Very boring and nothing new to learn.
Rating:  - Modern logistics - an executive summary
After reading various textbooks on logistics, quantitative analysis and strategy, this book was very refreshing, in large part from the fact that it is a short and non-technical book. The title of my review says it all, this book is summary for busy people wanting to get som insights into what is going on in logistics and organizational theory . I got through the book in two readings, which is a very valuable aspect for busy people.
Still, despite being brief, it touches on most important aspects, ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Advanced SCM Book - Repost
This is a wonderful book and introduces the practioner to some of the frontiers of strategically driven service response logistics. In other words how to design, deploy and organize integrated SCM for corporate strategic reasons, not just for functional cost control. Probably one of three key books for understanding the frontiers and highly recommended.
Key is the process, customer value and system integration perspectives threaded throughout but particularly in the last several chapters. The ... Read More
Rating: - Easy to read, theorethically strong and practical enough
After reading many books about logistics and supply chain issues, this third edition adds value to the field.
The author confirms his visionary approach and provides new thinking on supply chain risk and resilience. Not only agility is now more elaborated and explained as an important logistics strategy together with leaness, but also, hybrid strategies are proposed and practical cases are developed.
As always, the author ends with a view to the future and introduce the readers in ... Read More
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