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Book Description

This book illustrate sand explains a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and inventory management.

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making. Effective use of analytics requires an understanding of both fundamental and advanced logistics decision-making techniques and methodologies. Further, logistics professionals must organize and view these analytics-based decision support tools through well-structured planning frameworks.

In this book, we illustrate and explain a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and inventory management. We also describe how to organize these analytics-based tools and strategies through logistics frameworks that span strategic, tactical and operational planning and scheduling decisions.

This book is intended for logistics professionals to use as a reference document that offers ideas and guidance for addressing specific logistics management decisions and challenges, and it will also serve as a valuable resource or secondary text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Chapter 1 Introduction
  8. Part I Integrated Inventory and Transportation Mode Decision Making
    1. Chapter 2 Integrating Long-Term Transport Mode Selection into Overall Network Planning
    2. Chapter 3 Logistics Transport Mode Decision Making
    3. Chapter 4 Sensitivity Analysis
  9. Part II Logistics Decision Support
    1. Chapter 5 Introduction
    2. Chapter 6 Manufacturing and Distribution Decision Support
    3. Chapter 7 Inventory Management Decision Support
    4. Chapter 8 Incorporating Feedback Loops into Logistics Decision Support
    5. Chapter 9 Using Activity-Based Costing in Logistics Decision Support
  10. Part III Metrics and Techniques for Logistics Monitoring and Control
    1. Chapter 10 Introduction
    2. Chapter 11 Illustrative Logistics Performance Frameworks
    3. Chapter 12 Creating Customized Indices to Monitor Logistics Operations
    4. Chapter 13 Techniques for Monitoring Day-to-Day Transportation Decisions
    5. Chapter 14 Final Thoughts on Logistics Analytics and Decision Support
  11. Reference
  12. About the Author
  13. Index