Global Logistics For Dummies

• Deliver global disaster and relief logistics support
• Explore global manufacturing and distribution logistics
• Provide logistics services for foreign customers

Operate in a global logistics environment

There's no need to jump into the global logistics market unprepared. This hands-on guide is your parachute, offering the expert, actionable guidance you need to ensure your journey is a smooth one from start to finish. Covering everything you'll encounter in this exciting – but often intimidating – business environment, this is the essential resource you want to have close at hand.

Inside …

• Make a case for going global
• Involve the whole business
• Discern cultural differences
• Figure out best practices
• Deal with disaster relief
• Recover from losses/theft
• Benefit from others' experiences

Your one-stop reference for entering the global logistics environment

Global Logistics for Dummies is an operational-level reference and overview for those manufacturers, businesses, product distributors, providers of logistics services, humanitarian and disaster relief responders and logisticians on both ends of a global chain who are considering entry in or have recently embarked on entering the global logistics chain/market. Easy to follow and packed with tons of helpful information, it serves as a springboard to larger texts for more detailed information.

Beginning with an introduction to both the “whats” and “whys” of global logistics, the book sheds light on how global logistics demands the involvement of not only all elements of the logistics enterprise – e.g., design, logistics engineering, supply, storage/distribution, maintenance, transportation, returns/re-manufacturing, etc. – but also all elements of the business enterprise. In no time, it’ll get you up to speed on the whole-enterprise logistics elements that should be considered in the decision to enter and excel in providing logistics end-items, goods, and services to a global customer.

• Deliver global disaster and relief logistics support
• Explore global manufacturing and distribution logistics
• Provide logistics services for foreign customers
• Adapt domestic logistics to foreign operating environments

Written by a team of SOLE – The International Society of Logistics credentialed practitioners and academicians, Global Logistics for Dummies makes it easier than ever to succeed in this ever-growing field.