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What is the relationship between logistics and supply chain management? What factors need to be taken into account when designing a supply chain? How do you forecast your supply chain requirements? What inventory concepts do you need to know?Business Logistics Management, fifth edition, covers concepts and theories relating to the movement of goods, and the coordination of the supply chain.NEW TO THIS EDITIONNew content that deals with strategic logistics managementA new chapter on customer serviceSouth African legislation and local industry examples throughout the textQuestions at the end of each chapter for students to self-assess the theory coveredA new chapter on international logistics and trade.

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Author:   Wessel Pienaar (Professor of Logistics, Professor of Logistics, Stellenbosch University.) ,  John Vogt (Global Logistics Director, Global Logistics Director, International oil and gas services company) ,  Cobus Cronjé (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, North-West University.) ,  Anneke de Bod (Lecturer of Logistics, Lecturer of Logistics, Stellenbosch University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Southern Africa
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Southern Africa
Edition:   5th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.948kg
ISBN:  

9780190415662

ISBN 10:   0190415665
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   30 September 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction to business logistics 2: Value created by business logistics 3: Strategic logistics management 4: Tactical logistics management and supply chain integration 5: Financial aspects of logistics and supply chain management 6: Forecasting supply chain requirements 7: Logistics customer service 8: Production and operations management 9: Procurement management 10: Inventory management 11: The design and storage of handling facilities 12: Packaging the supply chain enabler 13: Equipment used in facilities 14: The operation of a warehouse 15: The transport system 16: Transport modal cost structures, competition and pricing principles 17: Transport management 18: International transport 19: International logistics and trade 20: Product returns and reverse logistics 21: Controlling logistics performance

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Wessel Pienaar is Professor of Logistics in the Department of Logistics at Stellenbosch University. John Vogt: Global Logistics Director for an international oil and gas services company. Cobus Cronjé is Associate Professor in Transport Economics and Logistics Management at the North-West University. Anneke de Bod is a lecturer in Logistics at Stellenbosch University. Jan Havenga is Professor of Logistics at Stellenbosch University. Ulrike Kussing is a lecturer in the Department of Logistics at Stellenbosch University, where she teaches various undergraduate and post-graduate modules. Fredrik Nilsson is Professor of Logistics at Lund University, Sweden and Extraordinary Professor of Logistics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Joubert van Eeden lectures Supply Chain Management in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Stellenbosch University.

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