Supply Chain and Logistics Management
An Integrated Approach

This textbook discusses supply chain management and provides a comprehensive overview of all the key activities and issues of supply chain and logistics functions as an integrated discipline.

Taking a comprehensive approach, it reviews end-to-end supply chain management from procurement to production to warehousing, distribution and customer service. It explores how each interface can be managed with the ultimate objective of providing superior customer experience to ensure satisfaction at the least cost while delivering incremental value in a competitive environment.

This volume:

• Guides on designing effective development and management of the supply chain network, which is an invaluable source of sustainable, competitive advantage in today?s turbulent global marketplace
• Examines the complexities and challenges of catering to the flexible and fluctuating customer demand, warehousing, channel distribution and transportation, global logistics value chain management, and performance management
• Discusses short practical cases to explain the decision-making process with respect to manufacturing decisions and inventory for efficient working capital management, both of which are critical for supply chain performance
• Explores performance management matrix, maturity models and so on

This book will be useful to students, researchers and faculty from the fields of business management, supply chain and logistics management, and mechanical and civil engineering. It will also be an invaluable companion to consultants and business executives working in the field of supply chain and logistics.

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List of Tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

About the Author

1 Understanding the Supply Chain: The Core Concepts

2 Evolution of Integrated Supply Chain and Logistics Management

3 Demand Estimation in a Supply Chain

4 Warehousing and Distribution Management: Complexity and Challenges

5 Managing Inventory for Satisfying Customer Demand

6 Transportation

7 Total Logistics Cost Management for Competitive Advantage

8 Sustainable Transport Logistics and Supply Chain

9 Global Logistics Value Chain Management

10 Sourcing Decision in Global Supply Chain Management

11 Supply Chain Performance Management

12 Benchmarking Supply Chain Performance

Index

Rajat K Baisya, Professor and Head (Retired), Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, is an internationally acclaimed management consultant and academician. Prior to this, he was President and CEO of Emami Group of Companies and Vice President-Business Development of Reckitt Benckiser. He served as Director on the board of Public Sector Undertakings and MNCs. He brings in unique experience from academics, industry and entrepreneurs. Professor Baisya is Chairman and Managing Director of Strategic Consulting Group Pvt Ltd, President of Project & Technology Management Foundation, a Fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Sciences (Canada) and an Academic Fellow of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI).