Supply Chain Engineering
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Goetschalckx, Marc, PUBLISHER: Springer, This is a book out of the Logistics Center at Georgia Tech, which is arguably the worldwide leading logistics program. Goetschalckx is one of the worldwide leading logistics program. Goetschalckx is one of the program's top researchers. This book is Goetschalckx's work over the past several years which incorporates material from traditional areas of facility layout, forecasting/inventory, warehousing, materials handling, transportation, supply chains, and global logistics systems into an integrated systematic treatment of today's logistic systems. Moreover, it is the product of efforts at Georgia Tech's Logistics Center to synthesize traditional logistics topics into the larger framework of logistics design, reflecting recent research developments in supply chains, information technology, global logistics, integrated enterprise management, etc. This will be the first unified treatment of logistics systems available to the field. There has been considerable growth in the logistics area over the recent past and as a result, there is a need for a book that examines these developments as a systematic whole. The book will meet this need.