Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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 provided by Syndetics

• About the authors (p. ix)
• Preface (p. xi)
• Acknowledgements (p. xv)
• Map (p. xvii)
• Part 1 Context (p. 1)
• 1 Introduction (p. 3)
• 2 Globalisation and International Trade (p. 21)
• 3 Supply Chain Strategy: Lean and Agile (p. 31)
• 4 Service Supply Chains (p. 51)
• 5 Systems and Networks (p. 62)
• Part One Case Studies (p. 74)
• Dell - Pioneers in Mass Customisation (p. 74)
• Jaguar Land Rover's Global Supply Chain: From Design to Execution (p. 77)
• Part 2 Transport and Logistics (p. 91)
• 6 Transport (p. 93)
• 7 Containerisation (p. 106)
• 8 Logistics Service Providers (p. 117)
• 9 Facilitating International Freight Flows (p. 127)
• Part Two Case Studies (p. 138)
• Air Cargo (p. 138)
• Port-Centric Versus Inland Location Decisions in Gothenburg, Sweden (p. 143)
• Part 3 Managing Operations (p. 149)
• 10 Inventory Management, Planning and Control (p. 151)
• 11 Materials Handling and Warehousing (p. 167)
• 12 Outsourcing, Offshoring and Procurement (p. 183)
• Part Three Case Studies (p. 203)
• The Medical Devices Company (p. 203)
• Patient Safety and the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (p. 205)
• Part 4 Data and Analysis (p. 215)
• 13 Data Flows and Digitisation (p. 217)
• 14 Management Science Applications (p. 229)
• 15 Managing Vulnerability (p. 239)
• Part Four Case Studies (p. 252)
• Contamination in the Bulk Agri-Commodity Logistics Chain (p. 252)
• Supply Chains Become Self-Thinking (p. 259)
• Part 5 Supply Chain Design and Improvement (p. 263)
• 16 Sustainability in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (p. 265)
• 17 Emerging Supply Chain Designs (p. 280)
• Part Five Case Studies (p. 290)
• Why Supply Chains Should Be Involved in Product Design (p. 290)
• Oman: One of the World's Next Great Logistics Hubs? (p. 293)
• Glossary (p. G-1)
• Index (p. I-1)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John Mangan is Professor of Marine Transport and Logistics in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University in the UK and Visiting Professor at the School of Business, Trinity College Dublin. He has spent his entire career around the logistics sector, starting as an air freight clerk, then as a civil servant focused on marine transport, and following this he commenced his academic career - his qualifications include Master's Degrees from both Lancaster and Cranfield Universities, and he completed his PhD at the Logistics Systems Dynamics Group in Cardiff University. He previously held academic roles at: University College Dublin, the Irish Management Institute, as a Fulbright Scholar at Boston College, and the University of Hull (where he was founding Director of the University of Hull Logistics Institute) prior to taking up his current position at Newcastle University in 2008.

Chandra Lalwani is Emeritus Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Hull Business School. He has also held positions as Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in Australia and as Visiting Professor at Newcastle University in the UK. He holds a BEng in Electrical Engineering, an MEng in Control Systems and another MEng in Systems Engineering. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wales in 1978 based on his research on the dynamic modelling of commodity flow systems. Prior to joining the University of Hull, he taught at Cardiff University Business School where he was also responsible for doctoral research in logistics and operations management. He is editor emeritus of the International Journal of Logistics Management published by Emerald.

Agustina Calatayud is Senior Transport Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB),* the main development institution for Latin America. She leads IDB's research and technology agendas on transportation and logistics. Before joining IDB, she worked with international organisations (European Commission, International Labor Organization and United Nations) and the public sector in the areas of logistics, transport infrastructure and private sector development. She holds a PhD in Mechanical and Systems Engineering from Newcastle University, UK, and Master's Degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Padua, Italy. Her research has received international awards from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Emerald Publishing and the European Logistics Association.