Ann Brewer / Kenneth J Button / David A Hensher (eds.)

Handbook of Logistics and Supply-Chain Management

Ed. by Ann M. Brewer, Kenneth J. Button and David A. Hensher

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains commissioned refereed papers that cover the main elements of transport logistics. The authors were selected from around the world and asked to provide critiques of their subject areas as well as a review of the state of the art and case study examples.

Produktdetails

• Handbook in Transport Vol.2
• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 570
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1054g
• ISBN-13: 9780080435930
• ISBN-10: 0080435939
• Artikelnr.: 10212624

Autorenporträt

David A. Hensher is Director of the Institute of Transport Studies and Professor of Management in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.(A.M. Breweret al.).
- Globalisation and International Perspectives.
- Perspectives on global performance issues (T. Heaver).
- European transport: insights and challenges (C. Ruijgrok).
- North America: insights and challenges (T. Corsi).
- International logistics: a continuous search for competitiveness (H. Meersman, E. Van de Voorde).
- Supply Chain Management.The development of thinking in supply chain and logistics management (A. Braithwaite, D. Hall).
- The supply chain management and logistics controversy (D. Lambert).
- The concept of value: symbolic artefact or useful tool (A. Brewer).
- Intermodal transportation (B. Slack).
- Logistics Management.Integrated logistics strategies (A. McKinnon).
- Lean logistics (P. Hineset al.).
- Inventory management (D. Waters).
- Just-in-time (S. Taylor).
- Warehousing: a key link in the supply chain (K. Ackerman).
- Consolidation and transhipment (M. Beuthe, E. Kreutzberger).
- Logistics outsourcing (M. Browne, J. Allen).
- Customer Services.
- Services marketing (R. Verma).
- Understanding and predictingcustomer choices (H. Oppewal, H. Timmermans).
- Logistics Performance Management.Costing theory and processes (W. Talley).
- Benchmarking and performance management: the role in quality management (D. Gillen).
- Green logistics (J-P. Rodrigueet al.).
- Organisational Logistics.
- Organisational logistics: definition, components and approaches (A. Brewer).
- Public policy and logistics (C. Grimm, M. Dresner).
- Comparative Industry Approaches.Retail logistics (J. Fernie).
- City logistics and freight transport (R. Thompson, E. Taniguchi).
- Manufacturing logistics (T. Whiteing).
- Maritime logistics (M. Brooks, G. Fraser).
- Air-freight logistics (A. Reynolds-Feighan).
- Bulk commodity logistics: overview and case study (K. Trace).
- Express delivery (D. Sage).
- Hazardous goods (K. Hancock).
- Research and Development.Dynamics and spatial patterns of intermodal freight transport networks (H. Priemus, R. Konings).
- Supply chain statistics (M. Bronzini).
- New technologies in logistics management (R. Stough).
- Freight and logistics modelling (G. D'Este).