Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing through the Supply Chain, 7th edition

Published by Pearson (August 7, 2025) © 2026

  • Heather Skipworth University of Cranfield
  • Remko Van Hoek The Cranfield Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • James Aitken University of Surrey
  • Alan Harrison Cranfield School of Management
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Title overview

Logistics Management and Strategy, 7th edition is a concise and strategic introduction to the subjects of logistics and supply chain management, with emphasis on international applications and examples, and is perfect for modern managers and students of logistics and supply chain management.

Logistics stands at the heart of debates around systems, sustainability, technology, competitive advantage, globalisation and risk. This textbook brings a thoroughly updated, straightforward and practical approach to these topics, and illustrates the real-life issues in logistics management through up-to-date case studies. This edition features cases from Australia, China, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Sweden and the USA, as well as cases on global businesses.

Major updates for this edition address contemporary issues so that each area of discussion ties in with current practice. The new or updated material includes:

  • A brand new chapter 'Supply Chain Risk and Resilience' highlighting new developments in the strategic management of risk, with new cases exploring risk mitigation strategies at Ford Motor Company and supply chain data visualization at Flex
  • A refreshed focus on sustainability and environmental issues throughout the book - from net zero carbon initiatives, carbon costing, and green logistics, to sourcing ethically and transportation
  • Digitalisation and the role of technology in logistics and supply chain management
  • Eighteen new case studies in this edition, illustrating the issues when applied in a wide variety of types of organisation
  • Significant updates on future challenges and opportunities in logistics
  • Activities and discussion questions, designed to help you explore key themes and apply what you are learning

This book provides all the necessary information to cultivate your understanding of logistics management and is recommended to anyone studying logistics modules, at undergraduate or MSc level.

Table of contents

Part One: COMPETING THROUGH LOGISTICS

  1. Logistics and the supply chain
  2. Putting the end-customer first
  3. Value and logistics costs

Part Two: LEVERAGING LOGISTICS OPERATIONS

  1. Supply chain risk and resilience
  2. Managing the lead-time frontier
  3. Supply chain planning and control
  4. Lean thinking and agile supply chains

Part Three: WORKING TOGETHER

  1. Integrating the supply chain
  2. Sourcing and procurement

Part Four: CHANGING THE FUTURE

  1. Logistics future challenges and opportunities

Index

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