Global Logistics Strategies
Kogan Page Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7494-7023-4 (ISBN)
Global Logistics Strategies offers a step-by-step guide to global logistics. Covering the breadth of logistics, this highly accessible text covers everything you need to know and is illustrated by engaging case studies of market leaders such as DHL.
In this comprehensive book, John Manners-Bell provides an in-depth definition, description and exploration of: freight forwarding, contract logistics, shipping, road freight, air cargo and express. The book also examines major sectors, including Automotive, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Consumer, and High Tech.
Global Logistics Strategies offers a detailed examination of key topics, including: how the logistics industry has developed, how it is influenced by macro-economic factors and demand-side trends, what the risks are to the industry, and how it will develop over the coming years. It examines important trends and developments that are shaping the industry, including 3D printing, megacities, and post-harvest food losses.
Includes online resources, including chapter summaries and figures.
John Manners-Bell is the founder and CEO of Transport Intelligence, a leading supplier of market solutions to the global logistics industry. He is Chairman of the Supply Chain Council of the World Economic Forum and advisor to the UN and the European Commission. Prior to establishing Transport Intelligence, he worked as an analyst in consultancies specializing in international trade, transport and logistics. He is also Visiting Professor at the London Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University. John Manners-Bell is author of Logistics and Supply Chains in Emerging Markets and Supply Chain Risk.
Chapter - 1 -: What's shaping the global logistics market?;
Chapter - 2 -: An industry in transformation: towards consolidation;
Chapter - 3 -: Logistics market development by geography;
Chapter - 4 -: The emergence of logistics clusters;
Chapter - 5 -: International freight forwarding;
Chapter - 6 -: Contract logistics;
Chapter - 7 -: European road freight;
Chapter - 8 -: Express parcels;
Chapter - 9 -: Air cargo;
Chapter - 10 -: Container shipping;
Chapter - 11 -: The European rail and intermodal sectors;
Chapter - 12 -: Supply chain dynamics of vertical sectors;
Chapter - 13 -: Risks in global supply chains;
Chapter - 14 -: The e-commerce logistics phenomenon;
Chapter - 15 -: 3D printing: the end of global supply chains?;
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.11.2013 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 429 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7494-7023-2 / 0749470232 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7494-7023-4 / 9780749470234 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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