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For junior/senior-level courses in Business Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Concise and well written, this introductory text integrates logistics into a supply chain management context. Current events, along with new theory and practice, compliment material on the basics in warehousing, transportation, inventory, and packaging and material handling. Unique coverage includes service response logistics, logistics accounting, and reverse logistics.* The concept of integrated logistics - Includes a model incorporating both product movement and service movement. * Offers students a treatment of a dynamic field that is not too academic and has a logical flow of topics. * An entire chapter devoted to service response logistics. * Outlines this important topic for students in a way that moves not only product, but services. Ex. Ch. 6. * An entire chapter devoted to integrated logistics accounting. * Shows students how to apply activity based costing to logistics in order for them to understand how to cost logistics properly. Ex. Ch.16. * An entire chapter devoted to reverse logistics. * Provides students with material on a topic that is vitally important today. Ex. Ch. 13. * Coverage of purchasing and supply management. * Gives students an excellent overview of the supply chain management element. * Chapter-end cases and study questions. * Draws students into the real-life applications of text concepts and then provides an opportunity to test their comprehension of them. * Numerous definitions, graphs, tables, and figures. * Helps students understand what integrated logistics is all about.

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