Business Logistics Management (4th Edition) - Hardcover

Ballou, Ronald H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137956592 ISBN 13: 9780137956593

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

Explains methods for managing such activities as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product scheduling. Organized around the basic activities of management specified in the title, and a triangle of interrelated transportation, inventory, and location strategies that are at the heart of good logistics planning and decision making. The fourth edition takes account of the worldwide business setting, the shift toward a service economy, and the integrated management of supply chain activities. The CD-ROM contains Logware software for Windows for solving vehicle routing and scheduling, forecasting, warehouse layout, and other problems. The only date for a previous edition given is 1992. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A comprehensive discussion of the planning, organizing, and controlling of such activities as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product scheduling.

From the Back Cover:

This comprehensive discussion provides the basic decision making tools and concepts used for finding cost reduction and strategic opportunities. Covering the planning, organizing, and controlling of such activities as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product scheduling, it is specifically designed to help readers solve the actual problems that they will encounter in todayÕs marketplace.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0137956592
• ISBN 13: 9780137956593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 681