Logisticsisan integralpartofoureverydaylife. Todayit in? uencesmorethanevera largenumberofhumanandeconomicactivities. Inthisbook, authorstryto illustrate some advanced logistics and supply chain management topics, recently mentioned by academic and industrial personnel. This book has been organized in 12 chapters such that the reader can study each chapter not only independently as shown in Fig. 1; but also as part of a whole. If someone wants to study the book more deeply, the suggested approach for this study is shown in Fig. 2. So the readers of this book may be divided into at least two groups: (1) students in Master's courses or higher, who can use this book in their courses as a whole, and (2) experts who want to learn more about a new topic in logistics and supply chain management; this group may want to read a chapter about a special topic that is found in this book. In the context of global competition, the more latent topics in logistics supply chain management are fast growing. This book falls within this perspective and presents 12 chapters that well illustrate the variety and complexity of these topics. This book is organized as follows: Chapter 1 introduces logistics and supply chain management and contains some primal de? nitions about these two concepts; some obstacles, prerequisites and infrastructures of modernized logistics and supply chain management and global supply chain management are illustrated.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Overview. - Performance Measurement. - Global Supply Chain Management. - National Logistics Costs. - Spatial Analysis and Land-Use Planning. - Supply Network Design. - Privatization. - Export Clusters. - Green Supply Chain Management. - Logistics Management and SCM in Disasters. - Military Logistics and Supply Chains. - Logistics and Supply Chain Management Information Systems. - Case Studies.
