Strategic Logistics Management: Contemporary Principles and Practice

Strategic Logistics Management provides a comprehensive overview of logistics management, applying strategic management theories to understand its role and relevance in sustainable competitive advantage. It offers new insights and provides a useful ground for understanding and managing logistics management, with international real-world examples from companies such as Lidl, Apple, and H&M.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 03 January 2025
Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Logistics and Supply Chain Management students will gain a fundamental understanding of how to manage logistics strategically with this new textbook. Going outside the traditional logistics and supply chain management domain, Strategic Logistics Management applies strategic management theories to further understand the role and relevance logistics management plays in many companies' sustainable competitive advantage. This textbook offers new insights to understanding and managing logistics management, and provides a comprehensive overview of the intersection between strategic management perspectives, such as market positioning and dynamic capabilities, and logistics and supply chain management practices. It presents a useful ground and new arguments for how to understand the role logistics management when strategizing, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge to understand and analyse this as a role. Throughout, this text illustrates the major managerial themes relevant to contemporary logistics management contexts, such as logistics development, paradoxes, supply chain resilience, logistics-based business models, and circular supply chains. This informative text is supported by a range of features, including chapter outlines, chapter summaries, as well as discussion and study questions at the end of each chapter, to aid development. There are also international real-world examples from companies such as Lidl, Apple, and H&M. Strategic Logistics Management is an essential resource for postgraduate level students on Logistics and Supply Chain Management degrees and courses. Online resources include lecturer slides, an lecturers manual, and additional comments on the study questions.

Dimension: 240 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398618077