Logistics in manufacturing / Christopher Gopal and Gerard Cahill.

By: Gopal, Christopher .

Contributor(s): Cahill, Gerard .

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BookSeries: Business One Irwin/APICS series in production management.Publisher: Homewood, IL : Business One Irwin, 1992Description: xi, 312 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1556233892.Subject(s): Business logistics -- United States | Competition -- United States

DDC classification: 658.5

Contents:

Logistics and competition - The future -- Logistics strategy planning framework -- Configuration/Network strategy -- Coordination/Organization strategy -- Customer service strategy -- Integrated inventory strategy -- Information technology strategy -- Assessing logistics performance.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The authors present a new paradigm of competitive logistics and show how manufacturers can develop logistics strategies to increase customer satisfaction and shrink the amount of time it takes to deliver products to customers at competitive costs. (c) by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.

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Gopal and Cahill (both consultants with Ernest & Young) point out in their book that management today is under competitive pressure to respond quickly and flexibly to the changing demands of customers. One implication is that inputs into the plant and products emerging from the manufacturing process must be transported with greater speed and efficiency. The authors provide a logical, practical approach to achieve that objective which emphasizes the role of logistics as a management function, but also considers its interface with other functions, such as marketing, finance, and operations. The work is crisp and clear, and is admirably supported with figures and tables. The increasing importance of reducing response time has been well presented in Time-Based Competition ed. by Joseph D. Blackburn (1991). A number of excellent books have discussed the critical nature of world competitive pressures, especially Thomas G. Gunn, Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage (CH, Dec'87), and Robert H. Hayes, Steven C. Wheelwright, and Kim B. Clark, Dynamic Manufacturing (Feb'89). Recommended not only to those whose primary interest or responsibility is logistics, but also to those involved with other management functions as a way to gain insight into current directions in logistics. Community college through graduate-level collections.-W. C. Struning, Seton Hall University