Integral Logistics Management: Planning and Control of Comprehensive Supply Chains, Second Edition (Resource Management)

Successful companies must strive to improve business processes on a comprehensive, coordinated level. Integral Logistics Management: Planning and Control of Comprehensive Supply Chains, Second Edition examines logistics in areas beyond the flow of goods, investigating administrative and planning logistics, or process control.

What's New in the Second Edition:

A review of E-business developments

Additional concepts in transcorporate supply chain management

Expanded treatment of master planning

Sections on distribution planning and control

More details on safety stock calculation and service level vs. fill rate

Revised chapter on the process industry

Comprehensive extension and update of terminology per CPIM exam content manual, covering all five CPIM modules

More examples from real industrial practice

Keywords at the end of each chapter, as well as scenarios and exercises, many of which include interactive, online elements

This volume presents the characteristics, tasks, methods, and techniques of planning and control, detailing innovations in supply chain management, Just-in-Time, Enterprise and Manufacturing Resource Planning (ERP and MRP II), one-of-a-kind production, manufacturing in the process industry, and more. It provides students, industrial engineers, business managers, computer scientists, and other professionals with critical information for improving processes within both manufacturing and service industries.

Swiss Federal Inst of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland