Business Logistics/Supply
Chain Management and Logware CD Package, 5/E
Ronald H. Ballou, Case Western Reserve University
For undergraduate, MBA, and
other courses in Business Logistics, Physical Distribution, Operations Management,
Materials Management, and Supply Chain Management, in departments of business and
engineering.
This comprehensive
discussion-covering the planning, organizing, and controlling of such activities as
transportation, inventory maintenance, facility location, order processing, purchasing,
warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product
scheduling-is specifically designed to help students solve actual challenges that they
will encounter in today's marketplace. It provides the basic decision making tools and
concepts used for finding cost reduction and strategic opportunities. Logware software on
CD-ROM is included.
NEW - The only text to
offer LOGWARE decision-support software- Included on CD with the text and enhanced for
this edition, LOGWARE now contains a simulation module and an accompanying case study that
spans multiple echelons, including transportation and warehousing, as well as facility
location.
Most of the sixteen modules
now allow the input data to be prepared and edited in Excel spreadsheet form.
NEW - Revised and
expanded discussion of information systems.
Addresses the rapid
expansion of IS among logistics activities - particularly Warehouse Management and
Transportation Management Systems.
NEW - Updated examples of
concepts and methods throughout - Features collaborative forecasting; collaborative
planning; forecasting; replenishment; vendor managed inventory; and inter-organizational
management.
Emphasizes the illustration
of boundary-spanning applications, including new methods for making decisions across firm
boundaries.
NEW - Extended conceptual
diagram - Heads each chapter, and now includes organization and control.
Shows the key planning
elements, and completes the full compliment of management activities, i.e., planning,
organizing, and controlling.
Coverage organized around
two central themes.
Details the basic activities
of management - namely planning, organizing, and controlling; and a triangle of
interrelated transportation, invention, and location strategies that are at the heart of
good logistics planning and decision making.
Coverage of several
trends that affect the scope and practice of business logistics, including...
Logistics in a worldwide
setting, reflecting the growing internationalization and globalization of business.
The shifting toward more
service-oriented economies by industrialized nations, showing how logistics concepts and
principles are equally applicable to service-producing firms as they are to those that
produce products.
The integrated management of
supply chain activities, as well as the management of these activities among the other
functional areas of business.
Unification of the many
concepts, principles, and methods - From the areas of marketing, production,
accounting, purchasing, and transportation - as well as from the disciplines of applied
mathematics, organizational behavior, and economics.
Assembles for students a
logical body of thought that can lead to the effective management of the supply chain.
A wealth of practical
examples - Includes example, application, and observation boxes throughout the text.
Demonstrates the
applicability of the material, and prepares students for solving real problems in
industry.
789 pages