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The Logistics Handbook encompasses all of the latest advances in warehousing and distribution. It provides invaluable "how to" problem-solving tools and techniques for all the ever-increasing logistical problems managers face -- making it the most complete and authoritative handbook to date.
Special features include:
* The most in-depth coverage of a wide range of topics, including information systems, benchmarking, and environmental issues
* Contributions found nowhere else from the leading executives, consultants, and academics in the field, such as C. John Langley, James Heskett, and David Anderson
* State of the art graphics
* Information-packed appendixes of logistics publications and organizations
This all-inclusive reference will enable the next generation of managers to thoroughly integrate their logistics operations at all levels -- strategic, structural, functional, and implementation -- into a comprehensive logistics strategy.
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Contents
Preface
Section I Perspectives on Logistics Management
1. Evolution of the Integrated Logistics Concept
2. Evolution of the Logistics Profession
3. Logistics in the Decade of the 1990s
Section II Strategic Logistics Planning
4. Logistics Strategy
5. Customer Service Strategy and Management
6. Marketing Channels: Strategy, Design, and Management
7. Logistics Network Modeling
8. Logistics Strategy: Integration, Implementation, and Management
Section III Logistics Quality and Productivity
9. Total Quality Management in Logistics
10. Measuring the Performance of Logistics Operations
11. Integrating Logistics Strategy in the Corporate Financial Plan
12. Logistics Cost, Productivity, and Performance Analysis
13. Benchmarking: The Search for Industry Best Practices That Lead to Superior Performance
Section IV Materials Management
14. Demand Forecasting
15. Inventory Decision Framework
16. Inventory Control
17. Distribution Resource Planning
18. Sourcing and Supplier Management
19. Production and Manufacturing Resource Planning in a Just-in-Time Environment
20. Packaging
Section V Transportation Management
21. Transportation Outlook and Evaluation
22. The Role of New Information Technology in the Practice of Traffic Management
23. Integration of Purchasing and Transportation Decision Making
24. Contract Logistics: Is Outsourcing Right for You?
Section VI Distribution Facilities Management
25. Materials Handling System Design
26. Materials Handling Technologies
27. Site Selection
28. Using Warehouse Information
Section VII International Logistics Management
29. The International Logistics Environment
30. Import/Export Management
Section VIII Logistics Information Systems
31. Positioning Information in Logistics
32. Logistics Information Systems Design
33. Electronic Data Interchange in Logistics
34. Strategic Information Linkage
Section IX Logistics Organizations and Human Resources Management
35. Organizing for Effective Logistics Management
36. Labor Relations in the 1990s
37. Focused Human Resources Management: Key to Logistics Effectiveness
38. Proactive Change Management in Logistics
Section X Contemporary Issues in Logistics
39. Third-party Logistics
40. Environmental Issues in Logistics
41. Logistics in the Service Industries
42. Logistics Technology in the Twenty-first Century
Appendix A. Publications and Other Sources of Information
parAppendix B. Trade and Professional Organizations of Interest to Logistics Management Personnel
About the Contributors
Index
ISBN: 9781439106259
ISBN-10: 1439106258
Published: 1st January 2000
Format: ePUB
Language: English
Number of Pages: 954
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Free Press