This is an introductory text focused on moving and storing products in a manufacturing supply chain.  We hope it will help you understand what a logistics person, operating domestically or internationally, would need to know to plan, implement and analyze logistics functions and operations.  

You can investigate the modes of transportation, types of warehouses, costs, services, tradeoffs, and risks that are the significant challenges for all supply chain managers. This book discusses strategies and methods that can add value to a company’s supply chain by improving a logistics network’s productivity, effectiveness, and customer service. The book also examines international logistics, vendors, customers, and distribution centers and discusses considerations for comparing the logistics impacts for local and global opportunities. 

This resource includes interactive components, activities, and links to external resources that will inspire learners to deepen their understanding of logistics in supply chains. 

Summary of Contents Page:

• Ch. 1 - The Role of Logistics in Supply Chains

• Ch. 2 - Technology and Logistics

• Ch. 3 - The Cost of Logistics

• Ch. 4 - Modes of Transportation

• Ch. 5 - Warehousing

• Ch. 6 - Third Party and Fourth Party Logistics

• Ch. 7 - Global Logistics Planning and Management

• Ch. 8 - Regulations and Rules

• Ch. 9 - Risks and Challenges

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This open access book explores supply chains strategies to help companies face challenges such as societal emergency, digitalization, climate changes and scarcity of resources. The book identifies industrial scenarios for the next decade based on the analysis of trends at social, economic, environmental technological and political level, and examines how they may impact on supply chain processes and how to design next generation supply chains to answer these challenges. By mapping enabling technologies for supply chain innovation, the book proposes a roadmap for the full implementation of the supply chain strategies based on the integration of production and logistics processes. Case studies from process industry, discrete manufacturing, distribution and logistics, as well as ICT providers are provided, and policy recommendations are put forward to support companies in this transformative process.

Contents page:

Trends, Scenarios and Challenges for Future Supply Chains

• Megatrends and Trends Shaping Supply Chain Innovation

• A Methodology for Future Scenario Planning

• Future Scenario Settings for Supply Chains

• Scenario-Driven Supply Chain Charaterization Using a Multi-Dimensional Approach

• Unveiling the Challenges of Future Supply Chains: An Explorative Analysis

Enabling Technologies for Future Supply Chains

• Technology Scouting to Accelerate Innovation in Supply Chain

• Mapping Enabling Technologies for Supply Chains with Future Scenarios

New Pathways to Future Supply Chains

• Paths to Innovation in Supply Chains: The Landscape of Future Research

• A Journey into the European Supply Chains: Key Industries and Best Practices

• Policy Recommendations for Supporting Supply Chains with Horizontal Actions

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This book guides students through the important aspects of procurement. Readers will learn what procurement is, the different strategies involved in procurement, how to find and select suppliers, how to manage suppliers, how to evaluate whether to outsource, how to manage subcontractors, how to evaluate and manage global suppliers and how to be an ethical procurement professional.

Contents page:

1. Introduction to Procurement

2. Procurement Strategy

3. Finding, Evaluating and Selecting Suppliers

4. Managing Suppliers

5. Evaluating Price

6. Insourcing, Outsourcing, Making, or Buying

7. Global Procurement

8. Ethics, Social Responsibility and Sustainability

9. Procurement Information Systems

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This upper-level open access textbook uses an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the ‘what and why’ of public procurement, providing insight into the ‘how’ of contemporary procurement in the public sector. The authors use theories and exemplary practices to show the next generation of public procurement professionals how public value can be created via the acquisition of works, supplies, or services by organizations operating in the public domain. 

Perfectly tailored to university students in public administration, law, economics, or management and those in executive education, the book first describes and explains the public procurement process, the concept of public value, the legal context of procurement and how the procurement function is organized in public organizations. The book subsequently explains how a procurement policy can be developed and translated into a procurement strategy, how tenders can be organized, suppliers selected, and contracts designed and evaluated. A final discussion chapter addresses the changes and developments in public procurement and how public procurement is moving forward. The reader of this innovative and accessible book will therefore not only learn what public procurement entails, but also how they can become a professional change agent in the field of public procurement. 

Forward-thinking and comprehensive, this book offers ideal reading for anyone interested in public procurement.

Contents page:

• Introducing Public Procurement

• Public Values in Procurement

• Public Procurement Law in the European Union

• Organizing Public Procurement

• Public Procurement Policy and Purchasing Strategy

• Tendering and Supplier Selection

• Public Sector Contracting

• Ways Forward in Public Procurement

Reviews:

"Those of us who concentrate on public management and organizational analysis need to be well-informed about public procurement, a crucially important topic in contemporary government. Jolien Grandia’s and Leentje Volker’s and their colleagues’ Public Procurement – Theories, Practices and Tools provides a valuable resource for those of us who want to enhance our understanding of the topic. It can serve as an effective supplemental reading in courses on public management and many related topics. The authors provide multidisciplinary expertise, including specific practical guidance along with concepts and frameworks that support broader systematic and strategic thinking about procurement."

- Hal G. Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Georgia

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This Glossary of Terms provides you with a comprehensive listing of current logistics and supply chain management terms along with their descriptions. The information contained in this listing was gathered from global supply chain leaders. Whether you're a student, professor, or practicing professional, this glossary is an excellent tool to enhance your understanding of the industry.

We gratefully acknowledge the following organizations who graciously support the Supply Chain Management profession by allowing the use of some terms:

The Supply-Chain Council's Supply-Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR) .

For more information on the Supply-Chain Council and SCOR,

visit www.supply-chain.org 

Information Access’s Glossary of Data Integration Terminology .

For more information on Information Access,

visit www.infoaccess.net 

Inbound Logistics’ Magazine Glossary.

For more information on Inbound Logistics,

visit www.inboundlogistics.com 

International Chamber of Commerce's International Commerce Terms (INCOTERMS) .

For more information on the ICC,

visit www.iccwbo.org 

Manufacturing System’s

Glossary of Special Terms used in Client/Server Computing, Production Management and Process Automation .

For more information on MSI,

visit www.manufacturingsystems.com 

The Performance Measurement Group’s Supply Chain Metrics Definitions & Calculations.

For more information on PMG,

visit www.pmbenchmarking.com 

The Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing-International's ABC/M Glossary.

For more information on Activity Based Costing and advanced manufacturing practices,

visit www.cam-i.org 

CSCMP is happy to provide this Glossary for FREE TO EVERYONE IN OUR PROFESSION.

Should you have any suggestions for additional or revised definitions, please send those suggestions

via email to: admin@cscmp.org and put 'Glossary' in the title of your email.

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