Ballou, Business Logistics - Supply Chain Management and Logware CD Package, 5th Edition, Pearson

Business Logistics/Supply Chain Management and Logware CD Package, 5th Edition.

Ronald H. Ballou, Case Western Reserve University. ©2004 | Pearson | Out of print. If You're an Educator. If You're a Student. Description. For undergraduate, MBA, and other courses in Business Logistics, Physical Distribution, Operations Management, Materials Management, and Supply Chain Management, in departments of business and engineering. This comprehensive discussion-covering the planning, organizing, and controlling of such activities as transportation, inventory maintenance, facility location, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product scheduling-is specifically designed to help students solve actual challenges 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. Logware software on CD-ROM is included.

Addresses the rapid expansion of IS among logistics activities—particularly Warehouse Management and Transportation Management Systems. Emphasizes the illustration of boundary-spanning applications, including new methods for making decisions across firm boundaries. Shows the key planning elements, and completes the full compliment of management activities, i.e., planning, organizing, and controlling. Details the basic activities of management—namely planning, organizing, and controlling; and a triangle of interrelated transportation, invention, and location strategies that are at the heart of good logistics planning and decision making. Logistics in a worldwide setting, reflecting the growing internationalization and globalization of business. 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. The integrated management of supply chain activities, as well as the management of these activities among the other functional areas of business. Assembles for students a logical body of thought that can lead to the effective management of the supply chain. Demonstrates the applicability of the material, and prepares students for solving real problems in industry. NEW - The only text to offer LOGWARE decision-support software- Included on CD with the text and enhanced for this edition, LOGWARE now contains a simulation module and an accompanying case study that spans multiple echelons, including transportation and warehousing, as well as facility location. Most of the sixteen modules now allow the input data to be prepared and edited in Excel spreadsheet form. Addresses the rapid expansion of IS among logistics activities—particularly Warehouse Management and Transportation Management Systems.

Emphasizes the illustration of boundary-spanning applications, including new methods for making decisions across firm boundaries. Shows the key planning elements, and completes the full compliment of management activities, i.e., planning, organizing, and controlling. Details the basic activities of management—namely planning, organizing, and controlling; and a triangle of interrelated transportation, invention, and location strategies that are at the heart of good logistics planning and decision making. Logistics in a worldwide setting, reflecting the growing internationalization and globalization of business. 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. The integrated management of supply chain activities, as well as the management of these activities among the other functional areas of business. Assembles for students a logical body of thought that can lead to the effective management of the supply chain. Demonstrates the applicability of the material, and prepares students for solving real problems in industry. New to This Edition. The only text to offer LOGWARE decision-support software- Included on CD with the text and enhanced for this edition, LOGWARE now contains a simulation module and an accompanying case study that spans multiple echelons, including transportation and warehousing, as well as facility location. Most of the sixteen modules now allow the input data to be prepared and edited in Excel spreadsheet form. Addresses the rapid expansion of IS among logistics activities—particularly Warehouse Management and Transportation Management Systems. Emphasizes the illustration of boundary-spanning applications, including new methods for making decisions across firm boundaries.