The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit provides practical tools for warehouse, inventory and transport managers and students to help them tackle the challenges of logistics and supply chain management. It is full of practical ideas and information to optimise the management of logistics and supply chain processes.
The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit offers solutions and plans spanning across a variety of sub-disciplines such as warehousing, logistics, supply chain management, inventory and outsourcing. Each toolkit addresses key principles within its area of discipline, providing the reader with a precision approach to be used in complex and sensitive circumstances. The toolkit presents a number of major management tools such as Fortna's Product Flow Smart Design, SMART, DMAIC and Gantt charts. General management, performance management and problem-solving tools have also been included to provide a broader, transferable scope of tools for the reader.
The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit: Over 100 Tools for Transport, Warehousing and Inventory Management | Gwynne Richards (Author), Susan Grinsted (Author) | Kogan Page
Features:
• Presents models such as the 8D approach and Decision Matrix Analysis (DMA) as well as examples of how they are used in practice
• Provides over 100 tools that cover every function of warehousing, transport and inventory management
• Online resources: downloadable tools such as supply chain audits and supply chain strategy decision charts
The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit: Over 100 Tools for Transport, Warehousing and Inventory Management
Table of Contents
Chapter 0: Introduction
Chapter 1: Warehouse management tools and guides
Chapter 2: Transport management tools
Chapter 3: Inventory management tools
Chapter 4: Supply chain management tools
Chapter 5: Outsourcing tools
Chapter 6: General management tools
Chapter 7: Performance management tools
Chapter 8: Financial management tools and ratios
Chapter 9: Problem-solving tools
Chapter 10: Appendix 1 Useful websites
Chapter 11: Appendix 2 Imperial/metric conversions
Chapter 12: Appendix 3 Automatic identification (autoID)
Chapter 13: Index