Modern Logistics Basics

Author: Gan Weihua
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: As a pioneering and core course in logistics, this book emphasizes:
● Building an image-based and relatively complete knowledge framework for logistics students through the analysis of concepts and principles.
● Integrating content by covering all fundamental knowledge points comprehensively, focusing on theory-intensive topics, explaining technical aspects in terms of concepts, and extensively using cases to deepen theoretical understanding.
● Emphasizing readability in its format, with each chapter starting with an introductory case, concluding with a discussion case, supplemented with appropriate charts and tables, and interspersed with small case windows. The review questions at the end of each chapter serve as a guide for readers to review and summarize key points.
● Developing a free-to-download electronic teaching package for this book, providing slides, website links, and some answers to exercises, making the content in the book easy to understand, practical, rich, and multidimensional.
As a pioneering and core course in logistics, this book focuses on building an image-based and relatively complete knowledge framework for logistics students through the analysis of concepts and principles. In content integration, it incorporates new logistics concepts, ensuring all fundamental knowledge points are covered comprehensively; theory-intensive topics are highlighted; technical aspects are explained in terms of concepts; and cases are used extensively to deepen theoretical understanding. In its writing style, it draws on the strengths of international textbooks, starting each chapter with an introductory case, concluding with a discussion case, supplemented with appropriate charts and tables, and interspersed with small case windows, many of which are cases collected and organized by the author or personally participated in second-generation releases. The review questions at the end of each chapter provide readers with a guide for review and summarizing key points.
To enable instructors to use the textbook immediately, the author has also developed an electronic teaching package for this book, providing slides, website links, and some answers to exercises, making the content in the book easy to understand, practical, rich, and multidimensional.
Target Audience: Especially suitable as a textbook and reference book for logistics majors in colleges and universities, it can also be used by business management personnel, particularly logistics industry professionals, for learning and reference. Additionally, it can serve as training material for popular logistics knowledge training programs and seminars.