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About this book
Logistics and Supply Chain Management students will gain a fundamental understanding of how to manage logistics strategically with this new textbook. Going outside the traditional logistics and supply chain management domain, Strategic Logistics Management applies strategic management theories to further understand the role and relevance logistics management plays in many companies' sustainable competitive advantage. This textbook offers new insights to understanding and managing logistics management, and provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between strategic management perspectives, such as market positioning and dynamic capabilities, and logistics and supply chain management practices. It presents a useful ground and new arguments for how to understand the role logistics management when strategizing, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge to understand and analyse this as a role.Throughout, this text illustrates the major managerial themes relevant to contemporary logistics management contexts such as:
- logistics development
- paradoxes
- supply chain resilience
- logistics-based business models
- circular supply chainsThis informative text is supported by a range of features including chapter outlines, chapter summaries, as well as discussion and study questions at the end of each chapter, to aid development. There are also international real-world examples from companies such as Lidl, Apple and H&M. Strategic Logistics Management is an essential resource for postgraduate level students on Logistics and Supply Chain Management degrees and courses. Online resources include lecturer slides, an lecturers' manual and additional comments on the study questions.
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Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Walkthrough of textbook features and online resources
- PART ONE Understanding Strategic Logistics
- 01 The strategic importance of logistics management
- 02 The market positioning perspective
- 03 The resource-based perspective
- 04 The dynamic capabilities perspective
- PART TWO Managing Strategic Logistics
- 05 Managing logistics development
- 06 Managing paradoxes
- 07 Managing supply chain resilience
- 08 Managing logistics-based business models
- 09 Managing circular supply chains
- Glossary
- Index