Total Materials Management: Achieving Maximum Profits Through Materials/Logistics Operations. 2nd Ed

Reflecting the enhanced role of materials/logistics management in today's competitive business environment, this new edition provides a fundamental understanding of the subject and its function in all sectors of the economy. It examines the vital area of customer service and shows how to implement a world class, integrated materials/logistics system that controls activities starting with the supplier, through the company operation, and concluding with the satisfied customer.
This Second Edition of Total Materials Management presents accessible approaches for enhancing materials management/logistics, enabling personnel in purchasing, warehousing, physical distribution, materials handling, inventory control and production control to capitalize on vast opportunities for savings. This book is also an important resource for students in courses on materials/logistics management.

Eugene L. Magad is a Professor, Material/Logistics Management, at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.