Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a comprehensive, fully up-to-date introduction to the subject. Addressing both practical and strategic perspectives, this revised and updated fourth edition offers readers a balanced and integrated presentation of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM)concepts, practices, technologies, and applications. Contributions from experts in specific areas of LSCM provide readers with real-world insights on supply chain relationships, transport security, inventory management, supply chain designs, the challenges inherent to globalization and international trade, and more.
The text examines how information, materials, products, and services flow across the public and private sectors and around the world. Detailed case studies highlight LSCM practices and strategies in a wide range of contexts, from humanitarian aid and pharmaceutical supply chains to semi-automated distribution centers and port and air cargo logistics. Examples of LSCM in global corporations such as Dell Computer and Jaguar Land Rover highlight the role of new and emerging technologies. This edition features new and expanded discussion of contemporary topics including sustainability, supply chain vulnerability, and reverse logistics, and places greater emphasis on operations management.
Table of Contents
About the authors ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xv
Map xvii
Part One - Context 1
1. Introduction 3
2. Globalisation and International Trade 21
3. Supply Chain Strategy: Lean and Agile 31
4. Service Supply Chains 51
5. Systems and Networks 62
Part One Case Studies 74
Dell - Pioneers in Mass Customisation 74
Jaguar Land Rover’s Global Supply Chain: From Design to Execution 77
Part Two - Transport and Logistics 91
6. Transport 93
7. Containerisation 106
8. Logistics Service Providers 117
9. Facilitating International Freight Flows 127
Part Two Case Studies 138
Air Cargo 138
Port-Centric Versus Inland Location Decisions in Gothenburg, Sweden 143
Part Three - Managing Operations 149
10. Inventory Management, Planning and Control 151
11. Materials Handling and Warehousing 167
12. Outsourcing, Offshoring and Procurement 183
Part Three Case Studies 203
The Medical Devices Company 203
Patient Safety and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain 205
Part Four - Data and Analysis 215
13. Data Flows and Digitisation 217
14. Management Science Applications 229
15. Managing Vulnerability 239
Part Four Case Studies 252
Contamination in the Bulk Agri-Commodity Logistics Chain 252
Supply Chains Become Self-Thinking 259
Part Five - Supply Chain Design and Improvement 263
16. Sustainability in Logistics and Supply Chain Management 265
17. Emerging Supply Chain Designs 280
Part Five Case Studies 290
Why Supply Chains Should Be Involved in Product Design 290
Oman: One of the World’s Next Great Logistics Hubs? 293
Glossary G-1
Index I-1
