Global Logistics

New Directions in Supply Chain Management
7. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7494-7133-0
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 772 g

The field of logistics continues to develop at a remarkable pace. Until recently, logistics was barely considered in long-term plans, but its strategic role is now recognised and lies at the heart of long-term plans in almost every business. Reasons for this change include: communications and information technology offer new opportunities; world trade grows; competition forces operations to adopt new practices and become evermore efficient; and the concern for the environment increases. Add to this the increased emphasis on consumer satisfaction, flexible operations and time compression, and it's clear that getting logistics right is important.

This 7th edition of Global Logistics, edited by Stephen Rinsler and Donald Waters, has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest trends, best practices, and cutting-edge thinking on global logistics. It provides guidance on important topics, including agile supply chains, IT, sustainability and performance management, collaboration, outsourcing and humanitarian logistics.

This edition of Global Logistics provides new chapters on supply chain trends and strategies, fulfilling customer needs, and supply chain vulnerability. There are also dedicated new chapters on China and Central and Eastern Europe to assess developments across the globe.

This edition serves as a forum for acknowledged sector specialists to discuss key logistics issues and share their authoritative views. The new edition introduces new contributors, including leading thinkers from international universities and businesses. Global Logistics is an invaluable source of guidance and practical advice for students, managers and practitioners, who will find it an essential text that also includes online resources.

Online resources available include a student manual with key learning outcomes for each chapter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waters, Donald

Rinsler, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Einkauf, Logistik, Supply-Chain-Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter - 01: New directions in logistics - Martin Christopher; Chapter - 02: Best practices in logistics and supply chain management: the case of Central and Eastern Europe - Krzysztof Rutkowski; Chapter - 03: Trends and strategies in global logistics and supply chain management - Christian F Durach, Frank Straube and Andreas Wieland; Chapter - 04: Incentives and the strategic management of suppliers - Glyn Watson, Chris Lonsdale and Joe Sanderson; Chapter - 05: Time compression in the supply chain - Adrian Beesley; Chapter - 06: Building more agile supply chains - Remko van Hoek; Chapter - 07: Using marketing and logistics to fulfil customer needs - David B Grant; Chapter - 08: People powering contemporary supply chains - John Gattorna; Chapter - 09: Linking supply chain management to shareholder value - Heimo Losbichler and Farzad Mahmoodi; Chapter - 10: Outsourcing: the result of global supply chains? - Stephen Rinsler; Chapter - 11: Risk in the supply chain - Lars Stemmler; Chapter - 12: Managing supply chain vulnerability - Alan Braithwaite; Chapter - 13: Information systems and information technologies for supply chain management - Xinping Shi and Simon Chan; Chapter - 14: Improving management of supply chains by information technology - Heikki Holma and Jari Salo; Chapter - 15: Delivering sustainability through supply chain management - Kirstie McIntyre; Chapter - 16: Performance measurement and management in the supply chain - Alan Braithwaite; Chapter - 17: Optimizing the movement of freight by road - Alan McKinnon; Chapter - 18: Retail logistics - John Fernie; Chapter - 19: Internet traders can increase profitability by reshaping their supply chains - Robert Duncan; Chapter - 20: Time as a trade barrier - Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås; Chapter - 21: Learning from humanitarian supply chains - Rolando Tomasini and Luk Van Wassenhove; Chapter - 22: Global sourcing and supply - Alan Braithwaite; Chapter - 23: International road and rail freight transport activity - Jacques Leonardi, Allan Woodburn, Julian Allen and Michael Browne; Chapter - 24: Developments in Western European strategies - Michael Browne, Julian Allen and Allan Woodburn; Chapter - 25: Recent development of e-tailing and its logistics in China - James J Wang; Chapter - 26: Logistics strategies for Central and Eastern Europe - Grzegorz M Augustyniak; Chapter - 27: North American logistics - Jean-Paul Rodrigue and Markus Hesse

Über Autor(innen)

Waters, Donald
Donald Waters has over 30 years' experience of teaching and working in logistics and operations management. He is the author of several well-known logistics books, including Global Logistics (also published by Kogan Page). He has lectured extensively in the area and was until recently Professor of Operations Management at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Donald Waters is now a visiting professor at various universities, including University of Calgary, Warsaw School of Economics, Czech Management Centre, University of Quebec at Montreal, University of Sheffield, Henley Management College and Edinburgh Business School. He runs a company that is centred around management research and education. He is a member of the CILT.

Rinsler, Stephen
Stephen Rinsler has extensive experience in the manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing sectors, covering the entire supply chain from procurement, forecasting, inventory management to warehousing and distribution operations.

Stephen Rinsler's senior management experience includes positions in Unilever (UK and European procurement and supply chains), and Exel Europe. He has acted as a procurement and supply chain interim Director for a High Street retail group. He has designed, developed, negotiated and implemented large scale purchasing and outsourcing contracts in several industry sectors in the UK and across Europe.

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.

Stephen Rinsler has extensive industrial experience covering the entire supply chain, including senior positions (SVP) in Unilever (UK and European procurement and supply chains), Exel (now DHL) Europe (Services Director with a brief that included procurement, risk, health and safety), Volt Europe (SVP Operations), and Procurement and Supply Chain Director for Storehouse (Bhs and Mothercare). He is currently Director of Bisham Consulting.

Donald Waters has over thirty years' experience of teaching and working in logistics and operations management. He is a visiting professor at various universities, including University of Calgary, Warsaw School of Economics, Czech Management Centre, University of Quebec at Montreal, University of Sheffield, Henley Management College and Edinburgh Business School. He is the author of several well-known logistics books.