To retain their market share in today's competitive business, companies are coming up with high value, low price products. To cut their costs, they are striving hard to identify the cash-consuming areas in their operations. Logistics and Supply Chain is one of them, as its scope ranges from the procurement and management of the raw materials through to the delivery of the final product. This book, now in its Third Edition, continues to provide theoretical and practical expertise in this area and has been upgraded to logistics and supply chain management.
The book begins with an introduction to the elements of logistics management and then moves on to explain operating objectives of integrated logistics, barriers to internal integration and principles of logistics information. It also deals with forecasting, inventory management policies, warehousing and highlights various aspects of logistics management and logistical organization. The book contains case studies in the Indian context to give a practical flavour to the subject. In this edition, a new chapter, namely, Supply Chain Vulnerability and Ethical Issues along with topics like Logistical framework with respect to Product Life Cycle, Bullwhip Effect, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment, SCOR model for measuring Supply Chain performance have been included to widen the scope of the subject.
TARGET AUDIENCE
• MBA (Production and Operations Management)
• PGDM (Logistics and Supply Chain Management)
SATISH C. AILAWADI (Ph.D.) has been Director of Institute of Management Technology, Hyderabad, Professor Emeritus at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, and Director of KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai. He retired as a Senior Professor in the area of Operations and Supply Chain Management from Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management (VJIM), Hyderabad. Also, he has been Faculty at ICFAI Business School, Mumbai, and Professor and Head of Operations Management at Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai. Currently he is Visiting Faculty at VJIM and National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad.
Dr. Ailawadi possesses an industrial experience of around 28 years at different managerial levels in reputed organizations like Raymond Limited, Mitsubishi Corporation, NELCO Limited, Shri Ambuja Petrochemicals Ltd., NIRLON, The Bombay Dyeing and Manufacturing Company Limited, and Harbor Network Systems Limited.
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RAKESH P. SINGH, Ph.D. (Supply Chain Management), is currently Chairman of Institute of Supply Chain Management, Mumbai. Dr. Singh has been a former Director, Durga Devi Saraf Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai and Director of Institute of Management Technology, Dubai. Prior to that, he was Dean, NMIMS School of Economics, Mumbai.
Dr. Singh has over 20 years of experience in academics as teacher, trainer and consultant. He specializes in Economics, Forecasting and Supply Chain Management. He is working as a consultant for a number of firms such as L&T, Syngenta, Vodafone, Nivea, Bank of Baroda, Rallis, SundaramClayton, John-Deer Tractors, and Sical Logistics. Dr. Singh is on various committees of UP Planning Commission and has served as Member of Agricultural Terminal Markets Committee, under the Ministry of Agriculture. Also, he is associated with Singapore Economic Development Board as an Economist.
Dr. Singh is passionate about Rural India and much of his research and writing works are focused towards this area.
