Logistics Management: An Analytics-Based Approach

This book illustrates and explains a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and inventory management.

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making. Effective use of analytics requires an understanding of both fundamental and advanced logistics decision-making techniques and methodologies. Further, logistics professionals must organize and view these analytics-based decision support tools through well-structured planning frameworks.

In this book, we illustrate and explain a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and inventory management. We also describe how to organize these analytics-based tools and strategies through logistics frameworks that span strategic, tactical and operational planning and scheduling decisions.

This book is intended for logistics professionals to use as a reference document that offers ideas and guidance for addressing specific logistics management decisions and challenges, and it will also serve as a valuable resource or secondary text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Tan Miller, PhD, is a Professor and Director of the Global Supply Chain Management Program in the Norm Brodsky College of Business at Rider University. Previous to joining Rider, he worked in private industry for over 25 years where most recently he was responsible for the operations of Johnson & Johnson's US Consumer Distribution Network.

Matthew J. Liberatore, PhD, is the John F. Connelly Chair in Management at the Villanova School of Business (VSB), Villanova University. He previously served VSB as the Associate Dean, chair of the Department of Management and Founding Director of the Center for Business Analytics. Prior to joining Villanova, Professor Liberatore taught at Temple University, and held management positions in operations analysis, information systems, and R&D planning at FMC Corporation.