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B O O K R EVIEW

Strategic Logistics Management

Strategic Logistics Management: A Supply Chain Management Approach, Third Edition, edited by
Wesley Niemann and Gerard de Villiers, takes a systematic approach to managing the entire flow
of materials, information, services and finance from raw material suppliers, through manufacturing

and warehousing, to the end user.

he advent of globalisation increased complexity Subjects include the following:
for companies, extending supply chains across • Customer service.
Tlarge geographical areas and making them • Demand and order management.
longer and more difficult to manage than ever before. • The supply management process.
Trends such as global economic shifts, increased • Inventory management.
consumer awareness, the rise in information technology, • Operations and manufacturing.
global pandemic outbreaks and climate change highlight • Transport management.
a range of new challenges facing business. • Warehouse management.
• Reverse logistics.
Supply chains and their logistics activities • Information technology in the supply chain.
are finding themselves within the public eye as • Contract logistics.
governments and business struggle with the • Network design and channel strategy.
consequences of these trends. It is an increasingly • Global dimensions of logistics.
difficult task to protect supply chains against • Supply chain risk management and resilience.
disruption, tracking and tracing goods through • City logistics.
an extended supply chain and managing the • Humanitarian logistics.
environmental impact of the logistics activities.

Strategic Logistics Management covers the operational
and strategic aspects of all the components of business
logistics from a supply chain management perspective.
It focuses on the integration of all business processes
that add value to the customer.

The book is divided into six sections for easy
reference. Part A introduces logistics and supply chain
management, Part B addresses the logistics functions,
Part C investigates supply chain integration, Part D
focuses on strategic considerations such as logistics
sustainability, Part E includes contemporary issues
such as city logistics and humanitarian logistics and
Part F contains a range of in-depth case studies.

Terminology is clearly explained and the main
points are illustrated with practical examples. New
chapters in this edition of the book include Demand
and Order Management, Contract Logistics, L O GI S T I CS NEWS
Sustainable Logistics and City Logistics.

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