Strategic Logistics Management: Contemporary Principles and Practice

Logistics and Supply Chain Management students will gain a fundamental understanding of how to manage logistics strategically with this new textbook.

Going outside the traditional logistics and supply chain management domain, Strategic Logistics Management illustrates how logistics and strategic management theories, are utilised by organizations to gain competitive advantage. Providing new insights, this textbook shows the importance of strategic management perspectives such as market positioning and dynamic capabilities and how they play role within logistics management.

Together, these perspectives provide comprehensive and complementary views on the strategic role of managing logistics, providing the reader with the necessary knowledge to understand and analyse this as a role. The book goes through the major contemporary management themes related to strategic logistics, such as the management of logistics development, paradoxes and digitalization.

This informative text is supported by a range of features including learning outcomes, key concepts, terminology boxes and reflective exercises to aid development. There are also international real-world examples from companies such as Lidl and H&M throughout. Strategic Logistics Managementis an essential resource for postgraduate level students on Logistics and Supply Chain Management degrees, and is also for students taking postgraduate Logistic Management modules. Online resources include lecturer slides, an instructor’s manual and additional comments to the reflective exercises.

Erik Sandberg is a Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Linköping University, Sweden. He is also a part-time consultant, with experience from a variety of sectors, with an emphasis on fashion, textile and food. Clients he has worked with include Ericsson, PostNord and ECR Sweden.