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TRANSPORTATION: A SUPPLY CHAIN PERSPECTIVE, 9E provides essential coverage of what is arguably the most critical and complex component of global supply chains. This edition explains the fundamental role and importance of transportation in companies and society, as well as the complex environment surrounding transportation service. A solid framework highlights the role of transportation in supply chains and overviews the operating and service characteristics, cost structure, and challenges that today’s transportation providers face. This edition emphasizes critical transportation management issues with insights into the strategic activities and challenges involved in the movement of goods. TRANSPORTATION emphasizes contemporary global topics with the latest coverage of hard and soft technology and discussions of fuel, energy, managerial, economic, and environmental issues.
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