The Roots Of Logistics

Author : Springer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3642279236

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Author : Peter Klaus,Stefanie Müller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642439187

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The Roots of Logistics by Peter Klaus,Stefanie Müller Pdf

Is Logistics a science? – The importance and impact of logistics as a function which is critical to the success of companies, of entire industries, and even of nations competing in the global economy, is no longer questioned today. Logistics, within a few decades, has established itself firmly as a profession, an important field of sophisticated managerial practices, and as a large, powerful industry. But in the academic world the question of its status and identity as a science is still being debated. This volume aims to contribute to this debate in two ways: It offers a selection of “classical”, in some cases hard to access original international contributions to the evolution of the field in one convenient volume of readings. As such, it should be useful to students of the field, to researchers, and to practitioners who are interested in tracing the logistical ideas and instruments they are using down to their conceptual “roots”. Beyond that, by the arrangement and commentaries to the original materials, the editors are proposing their own innovative interpretation of the evolution and identity of the “Science of Logistics”. It is an invitation to further debate the potential and future of logistics.

Author : Christian Bernhardt
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656315827

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Critically evaluate the development of Supply Chain Management over the last 30 years from its roots in physical distribution into a strategic boardroom level business issue by Christian Bernhardt Pdf

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, language: English, abstract: ‘The real challenge is to improve the capabilities across supply chains significantly in order to drive out cost and realize revenue benefits – fast’ (Gattorna 2003, p.4). This statement both demon-strates the importance for enterprises and emphasizes the complexity of the supply chain require-ments these days. In times of strong competition almost everywhere it is especially important to meet customer needs and thus ‘achieving high levels of service’ (Taylor 1997, p.3). But where does Supply Chain Management (SCM) have its roots and what stands behind it? The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate the development of SCM. It will both include an explanation of the differences between logistics and SCM and its reasons as well as an explana-tion why supply chain managers are now part of the senior management group. Therefore, the history of physical distribution, logistics and SCM will be mentioned, these three central terms will be defined precisely and four academic strategic approaches will be introduced briefly.

Author : Wolf-Rüdiger Bretzke,Karim Barkawi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642343759

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Sustainable Logistics by Wolf-Rüdiger Bretzke,Karim Barkawi Pdf

Currently the notion of "sustainability" is used in an inflationary manner. Therefore the authors start with a definition which is stable to serve as an anchor for further research as well as for discussions among scientists, managers and politicians, ideally across different disciplines. The character of this book is purely conceptual. The argumentation is based on comparison of new and demanding requisites with existing models (process and network architectures in the field of logistics). Formerly neglected impacts on the environment will be included. Main features of a new approach will be developed which are capable to avoid these impacts and to align logistics with the requirements of sustainability. In order to make logistics sustainable large parts will have to be reinvented. The focus needs to be on decoupling transportation activities from economic growth rates.

Author : Benjamin King,Richard C. Biggs
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0160931193

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Spearhead of Logistics by Benjamin King,Richard C. Biggs Pdf

Spearhead of Logistics is a narrative branch history of the U.S. Army's Transportation Corps, first published in 1994 for transportation personnel and reprinted in 2001 for the larger Army community. The Quartermaster Department coordinated transportation support for the Army until World War I revealed the need for a dedicated corps of specialists. The newly established Transportation Corps, however, lasted for only a few years. Its significant utility for coordinating military transportation became again transparent during World War II, and it was resurrected in mid-1942 to meet the unparalleled logistical demands of fighting in distant theaters. Finally becoming a permanent branch in 1950, the Transportation Corps continued to demonstrate its capability of rapidly supporting U.S. Army operations in global theaters over the next fifty years. With useful lessons of high-quality support that validate the necessity of adequate transportation in a viable national defense posture, it is an important resource for those now involved in military transportation and movement for ongoing expeditionary operations. This text should be useful to both officers and noncommissioned officers who can take examples from the past and apply the successful principles to future operations, thus ensuring a continuing legacy of Transportation excellence within Army operations. Additionally, military science students and military historians may be interested in this volume.

Author : Deborah Cowen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452943190

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The Deadly Life of Logistics by Deborah Cowen Pdf

In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising, Deborah Cowen reveals, if we understand its genesis in war. In The Deadly Life of Logistics, Cowen traces the art and science of logistics over the last sixty years, from the battlefield to the boardroom and back again. Focusing on choke points such as national borders, zones of piracy, blockades, and cities, she tracks contemporary efforts to keep goods circulating and brings to light the collective violence these efforts produce. She investigates how the old military art of logistics played a critical role in the making of the global economic order—not simply the globalization of production, but the invention of the supply chain and the reorganization of national economies into transnational systems. While reshaping the world of production and distribution, logistics is also actively reconfiguring global maps of security and citizenship, a phenomenon Cowen charts through the rise of supply chain security, with its challenge to long-standing notions of state sovereignty and border management. Though the object of corporate and governmental logistical efforts is commodity supply, The Deadly Life of Logistics demonstrates that they are deeply political—and, considered in the context of the long history of logistics, deeply indebted to the practice of war.

Author : Kohei Arai,Rahul Bhatia,Supriya Kapoor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030228712

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Intelligent Computing by Kohei Arai,Rahul Bhatia,Supriya Kapoor Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the Computing Conference 2019, providing a comprehensive collection of chapters focusing on core areas of computing and their real-world applications. Computing is an extremely broad discipline, encompassing a range of specialized fields, each focusing on particular areas of technology and types of application, and the conference offered pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from around the globe a platform to share new ideas and development experiences. Providing state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real- world problems, the book inspires further research and technological advances in this important area.

Author : Fernando Guirao,Frances M.B. Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317558316

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Alan S. Milward and Contemporary European History by Fernando Guirao,Frances M.B. Lynch Pdf

Alan S. Milward was a renowned historian of contemporary Europe. In addition to his books, as well as articles and chapters in edited books, he also wrote nearly 250 book reviews and review articles, some in French and German, which were published in journals world-wide. Taken together they reveal a remarkable degree of theoretical consistency in his approach to understanding the history of Europe since the French Revolution. This book brings together these previously unexamined pieces of historical analysis in order to trace and shed light on key intellectual debates taking place in the second half of the 20th century. Many of these discussions continue to influence us today, such as the role of Germany in Europe, the economic, social and political foundations of European integration, the European rescue of the nation-state, the reasons for launching the single currency, the conditions for retaining the allegiance of European citizens to the notions of nation and supra-nation, and ultimately the issue of democratic governance in a global environment. In bringing together these reviews and review articles, the book provides an introduction to the main scholarly achievements of Milward, in his own words. Fernando Guirao and Frances M.B. Lynch provide an introduction to the volume, which both guides the reader through many of the academic debates embedded within the text while underlining their contemporary relevance. By introducing and bringing together this hitherto overlooked treasure trove of historical analysis, this book maps a close itinerary of some of the most salient intellectual debates of the second half of the 20th century and beyond. This unique volume will be of great interest to scholars of economic history, European history and historiography.

Author : Anssar Khan
Publisher : Anssar Khan
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How to Formulate an Operations and Supply Chain Strategy to Enter into New and Emerging Markets by Anssar Khan Pdf

Globalisation is nothing and international trade has been around for centuries. Technological advances in communication and transportation have removed the barriers of distance and national borders leading to increased internationalisation of the production, distribution and marketing of goods and services. Although domestic and regional markets continue to exist the drivers for companies to engage in international business are expanding sales, market share and ultimately profit. The BRICS countries have long been the focus of western businesses as these markets become saturated many companies are seeking emerging markets in the developing world as growth opportunities for their businesses but these markets contain a high degree of risk due to less stable economic, political systems, physical and social factors with additional barriers such as culture and capabilities. Therefore, in order for a business to be successful and gain a competitive advantage in emerging markets it must become proficient at formulating and implementing effective supply chain strategies. The purpose of this book to investigate how can company can formulate an operations and supply chain strategy to enter into new and emerging markets specifically Africa with the ultimate aim to allow development of a framework that can be utilised a organisation for entering into new and emerging markets.

Author : David F. Ross
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781468400151

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Distribution by David F. Ross Pdf

It has been said that every generation of historians seeks to rewrite what a previous generation had established as the standard interpretations of the motives and circumstances shaping the fabric of historical events. It is not that the facts of history have changed. No one will dispute that the battle of Waterloo occurred on June 11, 1815 or that the allied invasion of Europe began on June 6, 1944. What each new age of historians are attempting to do is to reinterpret the motives of men and the force of circumstance impacting the direction of past events based on the factual, social, intellectual, and cultural milieu of their own generation. By examining the facts of history from a new perspective, today's historians hope to reveal some new truth that will not only illuminate the course of history but also validate contempo rary values and societal ideals. Although it is true that tackling the task of developing a new text on logistics and distribution channel management focuses less on schools of philosophical and social analysis and more on the calculus of managing sales campaigns, inventory replenishment, and income statements, the goal of the management scientist, like the historian, is to merge the facts and figures of the discipline with today's organizational, cultural, and economic realities. Hopefully, the result will be a new synthesis, where a whole new perspective will break forth, exposing new directions and opportunities.

Author : Xiang Li,Xiaofeng Xu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811078170

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Proceedings of the Fifth International Forum on Decision Sciences by Xiang Li,Xiaofeng Xu Pdf

The proceedings volume consists of academic papers on decision-making under uncertainty, smart decision, stochastic optimization, management simulation and its applications. It presents some compelling and valuable results on the cutting-edge modeling methods and the practical case studies in the operations management process for power, transportation, and logistics companies.

Author : Ralph Strubbe
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783656305781

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Critically evaluate the development of Supply Chain Management over the last 30 years from its roots in physical distribution into a strategic boardroom level business issue. by Ralph Strubbe Pdf

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (School of Management and Languages), language: English, abstract: When logistics is debated in general public, people mostly consider trucks, truck-drivers and noise. These aspects certainly belong to the broad business area related to logistics and nowadays Supply Chain Management (SCM). However it is easy to say that logistics and SCM contain a lot more than this. Critically evaluating the development of SCM over the last 30 years is the purpose of this essay. Doing so it is meant to involve a description of the development from physical distribution, via logistics to SCM, a confrontation of logistics and SCM and an explanation why supply chain managers are now part of the senior management group.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Logistics
ISBN : MSU:31293011639030

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Air Force Journal of Logistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Rushton,John Oxley,Phil Croucher,Institute of Logistics and Transport
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749433655

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The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management by Alan Rushton,John Oxley,Phil Croucher,Institute of Logistics and Transport Pdf

Designed for students, young managers and seasoned practitioners alike, this handbook explains the nuts and bolts of the modern logistics and distribution world in plain language. Illustrated throughout, this second edition includes new chapters on areas previously not covered, such as: intermodal transport; benchmarking; environmental matters; and vehicle and depot security.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : TANGER Ltd.
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9788087294888

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CLC 2018: Carpathian Logistics Congress by Anonim Pdf