Logistics and the supply chain

1 Logistics and the supply chain definitions, structure, tiering. 

2 Material flow and information flow the supply chain and the demand chain. 

3 Competing through logistics competitive criteria in the marketplace. 

4 Logistics strategies aligning capabilities across the supply chain. 

Key issues What is the supply chain, and how is it structured What is the purpose of a supply chain  

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A central theme of this book is that effective logistics and supply chain management can provide a major source of competitive advantage - in other words a position of enduring superiority over competitors in terms of customer preference may be achieved through better management of logistics and the supply chain. 

Since we launched this textbook in 2001, it has become a European hest-seller - and is popular in Australia, Singapore and South Africa. It has also been launched in Japan, Brazil, China and the Ukraine. The third edition retains the clarity and up-to-date content which have become hallmarks of the previous editions. This edition continues to provide further new and updated cases to illustrate developments in the subject. This time, chapters 6, 7 and 10 have been largely reconstructed, but you will also find many improvements to other chapters resulting from our research and our work with industrial partners. To formalise the connection between logistics and the supply chain, we have added the subtitle Competing through the supply chain. ... 

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