Logistics Management: An Analytics-Based Approach

By Matthew J Liberatore and Tan Miller

Book Overview

This book illustrates and explains a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, and inventory management.

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making. Effective use of analytics requires an understanding of both fundamental and advanced logistics decision-making techniques and methodologies. Further, logistics professionals must organize and view these analytics-based decision support tools through well-structured planning frameworks.

In this book, we illustrate and explain a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and inventory management. We also describe how to organize these analytics-based tools and strategies through logistics frameworks that span strategic, tactical and operational planning and scheduling decisions.

This book is intended for logistics professionals to use as a reference document that offers ideas and guidance for addressing specific logistics management decisions and challenges, and it will also serve as a valuable resource or secondary text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637423608
• ISBN13: 9781637423608
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"