Strategic Logistics Management

Contemporary Principles and Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-3986-1804-6
Verlag: Kogan Page

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

Logistics and Supply Chain Management students will gain a fundamental understanding of how to manage logistics strategically with this new textbook. Going outside the traditional logistics and supply chain management domain, Strategic Logistics Management applies strategic management theories to further understand the role and relevance logistics management plays in many companies' sustainable competitive advantage. This textbook offers new insights to understanding and managing logistics management, and provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between strategic management perspectives, such as market positioning and dynamic capabilities, and logistics and supply chain management practices. It presents a useful ground and new arguments for how to understand the role logistics management when strategizing, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge to understand and analyse this as a role. This text illustrates the major managerial themes relevant to contemporary logistics management contexts such as: - the management of logistics development - paradoxes - supply chain resilience - managing logistics-based business models - circular supply chains This informative text is supported by a range of features including chapter outlines, chapter summaries, as well as discussion and study questions at the end of each chapter, to aid development. There are also international real-world examples from companies such as Lidl, Apple and H&M throughout. Strategic Logistics Management is an essential resource for postgraduate level students on Logistics and Supply Chain Management degrees, and is also for students taking postgraduate Logistic Management modules. Online resources include lecturer slides, an instructor's manual and additional comments to the reflective exercises.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sandberg, Erik

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 01: Reputation – what is it and how can it be managed?;
  • Chapter - 02: Building a positive reputation – what does it take?;
  • Chapter - 03: Improving a reputation that is under threat;
  • Chapter - 04: Can you rescue a bad reputation?;
  • Chapter - 05: What are the challenges to effective reputation management?
  • Chapter - 06: Recognizing when an issue becomes a crisis;
  • Chapter - 07: Strategies and approaches to address a crisis in reputation;
  • Chapter - 08: A matter of ethics;
  • Chapter - 09: Post-crisis reputation recovery;
  • Chapter - 10: The future of reputation management;

Über Autor(innen)

Sandberg, Erik
Erik Sandberg is a Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Linköping University, Sweden. Prior to this he was an Affiliated Senior Professor of Textile Management at the University of Borås, and a Visting Researcher at both Cranfield University, UK and Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. As well as being a part-time consultant, Erik also has experience from a variety of sectors, with an emphasis on fashion and textile, and food. He has published more than thirty peer-reviewed journal articles and more than seventy articles for conferences, practitioner magazines and reports.

Erik Sandberg is a Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Linköping University, Sweden. He is also a part-time consultant, with experience from a variety of sectors, with an emphasis on fashion, textile and food. Clients he has worked with include Ericsson, PostNord and ECR Sweden.