Strategic Logistics Management: Contemporary Principles and Practice - Paperback
by Erik Sandberg (Author)
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. This text illustrates the major managerial themes relevant to contemporary logistics management contexts such as:- the management of logistics development
- paradoxes
- supply chain resilience
- managing logistics-based business models
- 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 throughout. Strategic Logistics Management is an essential resource for postgraduate level students on Logistics and Supply Chain Management degrees, and is also for students taking postgraduate Logistic Management modules. Online resources include lecturer slides, an instructor's manual and additional comments to the reflective exercises.
Author Biography
Erik Sandberg is a Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Linköping University, Sweden. He is also a part-time consultant, with experience from a variety of sectors, with an emphasis on fashion, textile and food. Clients he has worked with include Ericsson, PostNord and ECR Sweden.
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