Logistical Management: The Integrated Supply Chain Process

Logistical Management: The Integrated Supply Chain Process presents the mission, business processes and strategies needed to achieve integrated supply chain management. This text achieves three fundamental objectives: presenting a comprehensive description of existing logistical practices within the private and public sectors of society; describing ways and means to apply logistics principles to achieve competitive advantage; providing a conceptual approach for integrating logistics as a core competency in enterprise strategy. This first edition reviews the development and fundamentals of the discipline. It also presents our vision of the future of business logistics and its role in enterprise competitiveness.