Title statement

Logistics & supply chain management / Martin Christopher.

ISBN

9781292416182

Publisher (Imprint)

United Kingdom : Pearson Education Limited, 2023

Subject - Topical term

Business logistics |xCost effectiveness

Subject - Topical term

Delivery of goods |xManagement

Call Number

658.5 |21

Other call number

ENF 658.5 CHR

Author - Personal Name

Christopher, Martin.

Varing Title

Logistics and supply chain management

Edition statement

Sixth edition

Physical description

xvii, 337 pages

General note

Includes index

Contents note

Logistics, the Supply Chain and Competitive Strategy -- Delivering Customer Value -- Going to Market -- Measuring Logistics Costs and Performance -- Matching Supply and Demand -- Creating the Responsive Supply Chain -- Strategic Lead-Time Management -- The Synchronous Supply Chain -- Complexity and the Supply Chain -- Managing the Global Pipeline -- Service Logistics -- Managing Risk in the Supply Chain -- The Era of Network Competition -- Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Integration -- The Sustainable Supply Chain -- The Digital Supply Chain -- Sourcing and supply management -- The Supply Chain of the Future.

Summary

The intention behind this book, since its first edition, has always been to explore the ways in which organisations can better serve their customers and in so doing, improve the value they create. As markets become more competitive and the level of uncertainty increases, the challenge is how to develop a supply chain strategy that is capable of adapting to constantly changing conditions. Pandemics, geo-political events, trade wars and supply chain disruptions have characterised the recent past - demanding a much greater degree of flexibility and agility on the part of companies as they seek to respond to these potential threats. A further significant change that organisations must contend with today is the growing complexity of their supply chains. This has partly arisen as a consequence of outsourcing activities that were previously performed in-house, resulting in a much higher level of interdependencies across the supply/demand ecosystem. This increase in complexity makes the need for effective supply chain management even more critical than before. Hopefully the ideas presented in this book will assist both students and practitioners in their search for better ways to understand and manage supply chains in this age of uncertainty.