LOGISTICS SKILLS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGERS: WHAT SHOULD WE TEACH OUR STUDENTS?

摘要

Logistics and supply chain management is no longer just a discipline or an area of management: in today's competitive environment it is the way of running a business. Martin Christopher defines supply chain management as 'the management of upstream and downstream relationships with suppliers and customers to deliver superior customer value at less cost to the supply chain as a whole'. The definition highlights the fact that supply chain managers face challenges of managing the flow of product, service and information through the entire supply chain. Thus the skills required by supply chain managers to face up to these challenges are no longer restricted to the understanding of how to perform inventory analysis or how to reduce cost of distribution.