Dr. Stephen Arthur LeMay

Empty store shelves? Slow delivery? High gas prices? The Little Black Book of Supply Chains draws on the broad experience of its authors in consulting and academic research to give the reader an entertaining, insightful overview of supply chains. In recent months, we've heard much about supply chain disruptions, supply shortages, and rising prices. This book helps you understand how supply chains work and how firms should respond to supply chain challenges. It starts each chapter with a short story that ties the contents of the chapter to everyday life, history, or straightforward concepts. This book may not fill the shelves with toilet paper, baby formula, or tennis balls, but it will help you understand why the shelves are empty and what firms can do about it.

This book introduces supply chains. It opens each chapter with a vignette and covers key concepts throughout. It is especially suited for beginning and foundational classes, and for executive seminars for non-supply chain managers. Chapter 14 addresses supply chain disruptions like Covid19 and wars.

This concise and well written book integrates logistics into a supply chain management context. Current events, along with new theory and practice make it a valuable reference for industry practitioners, and compliment material on the basics in warehousing, transportation, inventory, and packaging and material handling. More in-depth coverage includes service response logistics, logistics accounting, and reverse logistics. Also featured, are important chapters on service response logistics, logistics accounting, and reverse logistics. For logistics analysts and managers, distribution analysts, warehouse managers, transportation analysts, supply chain management managers, and purchasing managers.

Chinese Edition in Mandarin-2003; Chinese Edition in English-2004; Croat Edition-2006

The Growth and Development of Logistics Personnel is the culmination of a research project conducted by Mississippi State University for the Council of Logistics Management. The book consists of nine chapters and ten appendices. Chapter 1 explains the research and outlines eight themes on logistics growth and development that emerged from the analysis. Chapter 2, Growth, Development, and the Changing Nature of Logistics Jobs, reports the results of a survey of 192 firms on training and human resource practices in logistics. It also puts the results of the research in the context of the human resource environment and explains how the process used in this research may be used in an organization. Chapter 3, Broad Responsibility Senior Managers, discusses the one job family. It reports on the results of phenomenological interviews and the surveys. It describes the need for broadly-based knowledge and skills training. Chapter 4, Logistics Information Systems (LIS), discusses two job families: LIS technicians and LIS managers. Chapter 5, Warehousing, describes six job families: warehouse operating employees, warehouse clerks, warehouse supervisors, warehouse administrative support, warehouse planning support, and warehouse managers. Chapter 6, Transportation, discusses four job families: loaders, motor carrier operating employees, transportation support, and traffic managers. Chapter 7, Material and Inventory Control, discusses four job families: inventory specialists, production managers, inventory and material managers, and supply chain managers. Chapter 8, Purchasing, discusses two job families: buyers/purchasing agents and purchasing managers. Chapter 9, Customer Service, discusses three job families: customer service representatives, customer service supervisors, and customer service managers. Chapter 10, Training Systems and Sources, outlines a detailed approach to identifying the right source of training to meet the training needs identified in Chapters 3-9.