Logistics & Supply Chain Management: creating value-adding networks (3rd Edition) (Financial Times Series)

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Logistics & Supply Chain Management: creating value-adding networks (3rd Edition) (Financial Times Series)
by Martin Christopher
from FT Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Over the top
  This book by Martin Christopher, is one of the better if not among the best books on supply chain management. Written by Professor Martin Christopher of the Cranfield School of Management, the book deals particularly with best practices in supply chain management in the current era of globalization. Responsiveness, reliability and relationships are the basis for successful logistics and supply chain management. Strategies like Just-In-Time (JIT), Lean and Agile thinking are reviewed, and last not least,... more info

• Boring book
  Keeps repeating the same things over and over using different words. Very boring and nothing new to learn.

• Modern logistics - an executive summary
  After reading various textbooks on logistics, quantitative analysis and strategy, this book was very refreshing, in large part from the fact that it is a short and non-technical book. The title of my review says it all, this book is summary for busy people wanting to get som insights into what is going on in logistics and organizational theory . I got through the book in two readings, which is a very valuable aspect for busy people.
  Still, despite being brief, it touches on most important aspects, and... more info

• Excellent Advanced SCM Book - Repost
  This is a wonderful book and introduces the practioner to some of the frontiers of strategically driven service response logistics. In other words how to design, deploy and organize integrated SCM for corporate strategic reasons, not just for functional cost control. Probably one of three key books for understanding the frontiers and highly recommended.
  Key is the process, customer value and system integration perspectives threaded throughout but particularly in the last several chapters. The chaper on... more info

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