Logistics Engineering & Management by Benjamin Blanchard

From the Publisher

An authoritative exploration of logistics management within the engineering design and development process, this book concentrates on the design, sustaining maintenance and support of systems. Deals with “logistics” from a total systems/life cycle perspective and includes those activities associated with the determination of requirements, the design, development, production, utilization, sustaining maintenance and support, and retirement of systems. Emphasizes the importance of addressing logistics in the early phases of the system life cycle, including: design engineering aspects and design of systems for supportability.

Booknews

A textbook for a course the graduate or undergraduate level, and a resource for practicing professions. Approaches the procurement, flow, transportation, warehousing, and distribution of material from a systems perspective that can be applied in commercial or military contexts and to nearly any category of system, including communications, chemical processing, and electrical power distribution. Includes considerable more material than the previous editions, 1974-1992 to emphasize systems and expand coverage of the life cycle to include system retirement and material disposal. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Product Details

• ISBN: 0131429159
  
• ISBN-13: 9780131429154
• Format: Textbook Hardcover, 560pp
• Publisher: Pearson
• Pub. Date: September 2003
• Edition Description: 6TH
• Edition Number: 6
• Sales Rank: 356,739

• Table of Contents

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