Download or read book Business Logistics/supply Chain Management written by Ronald H. Ballou and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the planning, organizing, and controlling of activities such as transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing, purchasing, warehousing, materials handling, packaging, customer service standards, and product scheduling. It is specifically designed to help learners solve the actual problems that they will encounter in today's market place. It provides the basic decision making tools and concepts used for finding cost reduction and strategic opportunities.