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Article Excerpt
Supply Chain Logistics Management, 3rd Edition, by Donald J. Bowersox, David J. Closs, and M. Bixby Cooper, McGraw-Hill, New York, New York. 2010. Pp. 498. ISBN 978-0-07-337787-2.
Business logisticians' input to managerial decision making has transformed from the warehouse, transportation, and dock operational level to the strategic boardroom level for leading global enterprises. Bringing in years of their research, teaching, and consulting experiences as well as input from business executives who have attended their seminars, the authors set out to fulfill three major objectives in this academic-oriented textbook, namely:
* Provide and integrate logistics into a conceptual supply chain framework
* Describe existing logistical practices in a global economy
* Describe ways of applying logistics principles to achieve competitive advantage
This book (four parts and seventeen chapters) serves students and professionals as both an introductory and reference guide to supply chain management with a special focus on logistic...
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