Logistics & Supply Chain Management: creating value-adding networks (3rd Edition)
Martin Christopher | 2005-02-24 00:00:00 | FT Press | 320 | Industrial
This classic text discusses the role of logistics in achieving corporate and financial goals. It has become the bible of the logistics sector and a frequently-adopted text at top business schools.
- A proven market leader.
- Guaranteed high price seller.
- Successful crossover into practitioner and academic markets.
- Essential reading for logistics/operations managers and increasingly, managing the chain of demand is a growing area within marketing.
- Written by a top author and consultant in the field.
- New chapters on logistics value, integrated logistics, network logistics.
- Updated case studies throughout, from full international range of industries and companies including Dell, Wal-mart (vs K-Mart), Zara, GE Capital, Li & Fung (Hong Kong), Hewett Packard, Dyson and Nokia.
- Enhanced by diagrams and chapter summaries.
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This book is easy to read, and easy to digest with interesting practical examples from business which illustrate supply chain theories
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I found this to be a great book at a great price. If you are looking for a comprehensive book on the subject of Supply Chain Logistics, then this is the one for you. Check it out!
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This book provides a very good overall review of basic Supply Chain functions, the linkage between them and some tactical precepts. The focus is higher level strategy. It helps the reader develop a fuller understanding of the discipline; it is an easy read and is well worth the time. Note that it does not focus heavily on any area; such as, materials management, distribution design, etc. Also, it does not guide you in developing a company strategy.
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Page 60: "20% of customers buying 20% of the products = 4% of all customer/product transactions"
There are some glaring errors here:
1. The general rule is, 20% of customers give you 80% of your business.
2. Christopher asserts that 20% of customers purchase 20% of your products, then it stands to reason that the other 80% of your customers give you the other 80%.
3. If these 20% of customers give 4% of all customer/product transactions, do the other 80% of your customers give 96%? Obviously not!
There are MORE errors.
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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, there is a very solid chapter on supply chain risk, which is what interested me in particular. That chapter alone is worth buying the book.
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