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Material Handling Systems Design
James MacGregor Apple / Published 1972
James Apple was a reknowned expert in the field of facilities layout and materials handling.
Procurement and Inventory Systems Analysis (Prentice-Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Jerry Banks, W.J. Fabrycky / Published 1987
Logistics Engineering & Management, 4th Edition.
Blanchard, B.S. (1992). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
This is an excellent text which covers the role of logistics in system/product design and development. I refer to it liberally in my logistics course, especially when covering logistics systems engineering definitions and measures early in the course and, later, concepts such as Life Cycle Cost (LCC), Logistics Support Analysis (LSA).
Beyond Negotiation by John A Carlisle and Robert C Parker
Cooperation between customer and supplier firms is a far more powerful strategy for success in the long term than any adversarial approach. This book gives examples of successful companies achieving this strategy through the creation of better relationships with their suppliers. It shows how they can work together to improve the likelihood that consumers will make the only decision which profits them both, rather than a decision which will profit neither. Also includes a description of the famous Red/Blue game. 180pp1989
ISBN 0 471 92203 X ; Ref.No. B28 £21.00 HB Reading Class B
Logistics Systems Analysis
Carlos F. Daganzo / Hardcover / Published 1996 / Amazon.com: $98.00 (Special Order)
Contemporary Logistics, 5th Edition.
Johnson, J.C. & Wood, D.F. (1993). New York: Macmillan Publishing Co.
The Connected Corporation by Jordan D. Lewis. The Free Press, 344 pages, $30.
Too many companies treat their customers like royalty but their suppliers like enemies, according to author Lewis. Yet, as he makes abundantly clear in this excellent study, establishing a partnership with suppliers is the best way to satisfy your customers.
Chrysler, for example, is able to lower the costs of its cars thanks to its close cooperation with suppliers. On the other hand, GM's interactions with suppliers consist mainly of squeezing them for cost reductions. GM product quality will undoubtedly suffer as suppliers withhold their newest developments and shift their brightest engineers to partners Ford and Chrysler.
Lewis doesn't gloss over the difficulties of partnerships. But supported by detailed examples, he shows specifically what can be achieved through customer/supplier partnerships and how to reach those goals. Best Business Books
Strategic Logistics Management, 3rd Edition.
Lambert, D.M. and Stock, J.R. (1993). Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin.
Excellent coverage of major portions of this subject. Needs to be supplemented.
Managing Logistics Change Through Innovative Information Technology
by Joseph E. McKeon (Editor) / Published 1987
Physical Distribution Systems
Alan C. McKinnon / Published 1989
Getting Partnering Right by Rackham, Friedman, and Ruff. McGraw-Hill, 224 pages, $22.95.
Is partnering -- getting much more intimate with your customers and suppliers than the normal arms-length transaction -- a fad?
No, say the authors, especially when you consider the loads of cash successful practitioners have saved thanks to partnering arrangements. McDonnell-Douglas, for example, cut about $300 million from the development costs of a new plane by partnering with a number of suppliers.
Partnering agreements, write the authors, have three ingredients:
Impact. They deliver tangible results.
Intimacy. They go way beyond traditional relationships. Audio component-maker Bose, for instance, has many supplier employees working right in its plant.
Vision. A compelling idea of what the partnership can achieve.
The book covers each of these factors in great detail, veering back again and again to critical questions: With whom do you partner? Where do you start? What are the first few steps? What elements foster success?
In reading this book, you'll see where it makes sense to partner, ways to get started, and how to succeed. Best Business Books
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Transportation, Fourth Edition.
Coyle, John J., Edward J. Bardi and Robert A. Novack / St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1994.
Social and Economic Consequences of Deregulation: The Transportation Industry in Transition.
Dempsey, P. S. (1989). Westport, CT: Quorum Books. (LAK 1099)
Managing Transport Systems : A Cybernetic Perspective
Paul Keys (Editor) / Published 1985
Port information systems around the world
Satya Malhotra
Moving America: New Directions, New Opportunities.
U.S. Department of Transportation. (February 1990). Washington, DC: Author. (LAK 1097)
National Transportation Strategic Planning Study.
U.S. Department of Transportation. (March 1990). Washington, DC: Author.
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