Chapter 11 Military Logistics

Contributions to Management Science

Reza Zanjirani Farahani • Nasrin Asgari
Hoda Davarzani
Editors

Supply Chain and
Logistics in National,
International and
Governmental
Environment
Concepts and Models

Editors
Dr. Reza Zanjirani Farahani
Centre for Maritime Studies
National University of Singapore
Singapore
and

Dr. Nasrin Asgari
Centre for Maritime Studies
NationalUniversity of Singapore
Singapore
cmsna@nus.edu.sg

Institute for Trade Studies & Research
Tehran
Iran
cmszfr@nus.edu.sg
Hoda Davarzani
Institute for Trade Studies & Research
Tehran
Iran
and
Tarbiat Modares University
Industrial Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering
Tehran
Iran
davarzani@modares.ac.ir

ISSN 1431-1941
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DOI:10.1007/978-3-7908-2156-7
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This book is dedicated to
Professor Hartmut Stadtler
whose book and mentorship
paved the way for us to acquire a
better understanding of
Supply Chain Management

Preface

Logistics is an integral part of our everyday life. Today it influences more than ever a
large number of human and economic activities. In this book, authors try to illustrate
someadvanced logistics and supply chain management topics, recently mentioned
by academic and industrial personnel. This book has been organized in 12 chapters
such that the reader can study each chapter not only independently as shown in
Fig. 1; but also as part of a whole. If someone wants to study the book more deeply,
the suggested approach for this study is shown in Fig. 2.
So the readers ofthis book may be divided into at least two groups: (1) students
in Master’s courses or higher, who can use this book in their courses as a whole,
and (2) experts who want to learn more about a new topic in logistics and supply
chain management; this group may want to read a chapter about a special topic that
is found in this book.
In the context of global competition, the more latent topicsin logistics supply
chain management are fast growing. This book falls within this perspective and
presents 12 chapters that well illustrate the variety and complexity of these topics.
This book is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 introduces logistics and supply chain management and contains some
primal definitions about these two concepts; some obstacles, prerequisites and
infrastructures ofmodernized logistics and supply chain management and global
supply chain management are illustrated.
Chapter 2 concentrates on performance measurement scales and indicators. Performance measurement is the process of quantifying the effectiveness and efficiency
of action. Performance measurement systems are described as the overall set of
metrics used to quantify both the efficiency and...