Ballou, Business Logistics Management, Pearson

Business Logistics Management, 4th Edition.

Ronald H. Ballou, Case Western Reserve University. Description. This comprehensive discussion—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—is specifically designed to help readers solve the actual problems that they will encounter in today's marketplace. It provides the basic decision making tools and concepts used for finding cost reduction and strategic opportunities. Includes Logware Software. The shifting toward more service-oriented economies by industrialized nations, showing how logistics concepts and principles are equally applicable to service-producing firms as they are to those that produce products. Pg.___. The integrated management of supply chain activities, as well as the management of these activities among the other functional areas of business. Pg.___. Offers a new version designed for Windows. Pg.___. Provides complete software package on CD-ROM that accompanies each book. Adds new cases that include problems best solved with the aid of the software. Pg.___. Integrates software use into case studies and end-of-chapter problems. Pg.___. Logistics in a worldwide setting, reflecting the growing internationalization and globalization of business. Pg.___. The shifting toward more service-oriented economies by industrialized nations, showing how logistics concepts and principles are equally applicable to service-producing firms as they are to those that produce products. Pg.___. The integrated management of supply chain activities, as well as the management of these activities among the other functional areas of business. Pg.___.

Offers a new version designed for Windows. Pg.___. Provides complete software package on CD-ROM that accompanies each book. Adds new cases that include problems best solved with the aid of the software. Pg.___. Integrates software use into case studies and end-of-chapter problems. Pg.___. New to This Edition. The supply chain concept is introduced in Ch. 1 as an extension of the traditional definition for business logistics. Pg.___ Organizes coverage around two central themes: (1) The basic activities of management—namely planning, organizing, and controlling; and (2) A triangle of interrelated transportation, invention, and location strategies that are at the heart of good logistics planning and decision making. Pg.___ Reflects several trends that affect the scope and practice of business logistics, including. Logistics in a worldwide setting, reflecting the growing internationalization and globalization of business. Pg.___. The shifting toward more service-oriented economies by industrialized nations, showing how logistics concepts and principles are equally applicable to service-producing firms as they are to those that produce products. Pg.___. The integrated management of supply chain activities, as well as the management of these activities among the other functional areas of business. Pg.___. Offers a new version designed for Windows. Pg.___. Provides complete software package on CD-ROM that accompanies each book. Adds new cases that include problems best solved with the aid of the software. Pg.___. Updates chapters throughout the text with current examples. Pg.___ Introduces a wealth of new methods, including fuzzy logic. Pg.___ Supports discussions with more end-of-chapter problems and exercises. Pg.___.