Logistics Management and Strategy Competing through the supply chain Third Edition BBA

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Logistics Management and Strategy
Competing through the supply chain
Third Edition
Alan Harrison Remko van Hoek

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Foreword
It is a real pleasure to introduce such a quality text as Logistics Management and Strategy, now in its third edition, which helps to enhance our understanding of this important area of business today. It is a field that is rapidly gaining import- ance and focus as businesses like Reckitt Benckiser address the challenge of meet- ing increasingly demanding customer expectations in all five continents.
Reckitt Benckiser is rightly famous for the excellence of its products – but product excellence must be supported by logistics excellence so that a broad range is always available for the end-consumer to buy. One challenge is obviously to ensure this avail- ability to the consumer while complying with the requirements of trade customers. Another challenge is to achieve all of this at a low cost in order to be able to offer prod- ucts to the consumer at reasonable prices. Answering these challenges is the aim of the Reckitt Benckiser network and, more specifically, of our logistics organisation.
At Reckitt Benckiser we describe ourselves as a ‘truly global company passion- ately delivering better solutions to consumers, with operations in 60 countries, sales in 180 countries and net revenues in excess of £5 billion’.
The logistics task in fulfilling our objective, with such a business scope, is immense. We have 44 factories around the world and produce several hundreds of different products from food to home and personal care.
We have grown by over 70% over the last five years, which poses further chal- lenges for our logistics systems and people to meet. On the one hand, we need to optimise our systems and minimise costs; on the other hand, we must support the growth of the business and ensure product and process innovation. For us to succeed, it is becoming increasingly important to excel in the management of logistics, which becomes a strategic function and a source of differentiation and of competitive advantage. This means that managers in all parts of the business must understand their impact on, and role in, the logistics task.
Logistics Management and Strategy is an excellent text that supports the need to dis- seminate knowledge and understanding of logistics in an easy-to-read way. While explaining with great clarity the theoretical concepts, it remains very pragmatic and close to business life through the use of concrete examples and well-chosen case studies. It manages to examine logistics knowledge and understanding in depth while at the same time remaining not only very accessible but really pleasant to read.
Finally, its international perspective reflects the nature of logistics today in businesses like Reckitt Benckiser. As another Anglo-Dutch collaboration, Alan and Remko have succeeded in helping to increase our understanding of a rapidly evolving and increasingly crucial area of doing business in the twenty-first century.
Alain Le Goff Executive Vice President, Global Supply Member of the Executive Committee Reckitt Benckiser

Preface
Logistics has been emerging from Peter Drucker’s shadowy description as ‘the econ- omy’s dark continent’ for some years.1 From its largely military origins, logistics has accelerated into becoming one of the key business issues of the day, presenting formidable challenges for managers and occupying some of the best minds. Its rela- tively slow route to this exalted position can be attributed to two causes. First, logistics is a cross-functional subject. In the past, it has rightly drawn on contribu- tions from marketing, finance, operations and corporate strategy. Within the organisation, a more appropriate description would be a business process, cutting across functional boundaries yet with a contribution from each. Second, logistics extends beyond the boundaries of the organisation into the supply chain. Here, it engages with the complexities of synchronising the movement of materials and information between many business processes. The systems nature of logistics has proved a particularly difficult lesson to learn, and individual organisations still often think that they can optimise profit conditions for themselves by exploiting their partners in the supply chain. Often they can – in the short term. But winners in one area are matched by losers in another, and the losers are unable to invest or to develop the capabilities needed to keep the chain healthy in the long term. The emergence of logistics has therefore been dependent on the development of a cross-functional model of the organisation, and on an understanding of the need to integrate business processes across the supply network.
While its maturity as a discipline in its own right is still far from complete, we believe that it is time to take a current and fresh look at logistics management and strategy. Tools and concepts to enable integration of the supply chain are starting to work well. Competitive advantage in tomorrow’s world will come from responding to end-customers better than the competition. Logistics plays a vital role in this response, and it is this role that we seek to describe in this book. This text has a clear European appeal. Its currency is the Euro. But in line with the globalisation of logistics, we have included cases from other parts of the world, including South Africa, the United States, Japan, China and Australia.
Accordingly, we start in Part One with the competitive role of logistics in the supply chain. We continue by developing the marketing perspective by explain- ing our view of ‘putting the end-customer first’. Part One finishes by exploring the concept of value and logistics costs. In Part Two, we review leveraging logis- tics operations in terms of their global dimensions, and of the lead-time frontier. Part Two continues by examining the impact on logistics of lean thinking and the agile supply chain. Part Three reviews working together, first in terms of inte- grating the supply chain and second in terms of partnerships. Our book ends with Part Four, in which we outline the logistics future challenge.
This text is intended for MSc students on logistics courses, and as an accom- panying text for open learning courses such as the global MSc degrees and virtual
1 Drucker, P. (1962) ‘The economy’s dark continent’, Fortune, April, pp. 103–270.

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universities. It will also be attractive as a management textbook and as rec- ommended reading on MBA options in logistics and supply chain management. In the second edition, we listened carefully to students and to reviewers alike and set out to build on the foundation of our initial offering. We updated much of the material while keeping the clear structure and presentation of the first edition. We included lots of new cases and updated others. We attempted to touch on many of the exciting developments in this rapidly expanding body of knowledge, such as governance councils, the prospects for RFID and the future of
exchanges.
Since we launched this textbook in 2001, it has become a European best-seller
– and is popular in Australia, Singapore and South Africa. It has also been launched in Japan, Brazil, China and the Ukraine. The third edition retains the clarity and up-to-date content which have become hallmarks of the previous editions. This edition continues to provide further new and updated cases to illustrate developments in the subject. This time, chapters 6, 7 and 10 have been largely reconstructed, but you will also find many improvements to other chap- ters resulting from our research and our work with industrial partners. To for- malise the connection between logistics and the supply chain, we have added the subtitle ‘Competing through the supply chain’.
We hope that our book will offer support to further professional development in logistics and supply chain management, which is much needed. In particular, we hope that it encourages you to challenge existing thinking, and to break old mindsets by creating a new and more innovative future.

Author’s acknowledgements
We should like to acknowledge our many friends and colleagues who have con- tributed to our thinking and to our book. Cranfield colleagues deserve a special mention: Dr Paul Chapman, Janet Godsell, Dr Carlos Mena, Simon Templar and Professor Richard Wilding have been particularly helpful. Sri Srikanthan helped us with the financial concepts used in section 3.2. Members of the Agile Supply Chain Research Club at Cranfield also deserve special mention, especially Chris Poole of Procter & Gamble (now of PA Management Consultants), Paul Mayhew of Bausch & Lomb Europe, Ian Shellard and David Evans of Rolls-Royce, Peter Duggan of Telefonica and Colin Peacock of Procter & Gamble. We have picked the brains of several who have recently retired from the industry, including David Aldridge (formerly of Cussons UK), Philip Matthews (formerly of Boots the Chemists) and Graham Sweet of Xerox, Europe. A number of professors from other European universities have contributed ideas and cases, including Marie Koulikoff-Souviron (CERAM, Nice), Jacques Colin (CretLog, Aix-en-Provence), Konstantinos Zographos (Athens University of Economics and Business), and Corrado Ceruti (University of Roma). Many of our MSc graduates, such as Steve Walker and Alexander Oliveira, also made important contributions. Professor Yemisi Bolumole (University of North Florida) helped us to re-draft earlier ver- sions of the first edition, and Professor Martin Christopher contributed to our earlier thinking on agile supply chains. Dr Jim Aitken contributed to our supply chain segmentation thinking in Chapter 2, and we have used his work on sup- plier associations in Chapter 9. We also acknowledge the encouragement of Amanda McPartlin at Pearson Education in the preparation of this text and the encouragement to write it faster! Also, we thank the reviewers who made many valuable comments on earlier editions of this book. We are very grateful to all of these, and to the many others who made smaller contributions to making this book possible. Finally, we thank Lynne Hudston for helping to sort out our rather convoluted manuscripts in addition to helping to run our Supply Chain Research Centre at Cranfield.

Publisher’s acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following reviewers for their valuable comments and feedback on the book:
Des Doran – Kingston University, UK
Prasanta Kumar Dey – Aston University, UK
Arni Halldorsson – University of Southampton, UK John Johansen – Aalborg University, Denmark
Paul Davis – Dublin City University, Eire
Mathew Shafaghi – University of Bolton, UK
We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:
Figure 1.6 from JIT in a distribution environment, International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 32–4 (Eggleton, D.J. 1990), Table 2.6 from Logistic service measurement: a reference framework, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 15 No. 3, pp. 280–90 (Rafele, C. 2004), Figures 4.11–4.13 from Reconfiguring the supply chain to implement postponed manufacturing, International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 9 No. 1 (van Hoek, R.I. 1998), Figures 8.9 and 9.9 from The pervasive human resource picture in interdependent supply relationships, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 27 Nol. 1 (Koulikoff-Souviron, M. and Harrison, A. 2007), Figure 9.8 from An empirical investigation into supply chain management: a perspective on partner- ships, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Vol. 28 No. 8 (Spekman, R.E., Kamauff Jr, J.W. and Myhr, N. 1998), reprinted by permis- sion of Emerald Group Publishing Limited; Figure 1.7 from Strategic Supply Chain Alignment (Gattorna, J., ed. 1998), © Ashgate Publishing Limited; Table 2.5 from Strategy formulation in an FMCG supply chain, Proceedings of the EurOMA Conference, Copenhagen (Godsell, J. and Harrison, A. 2002), reprinted by permis- sion of Janet Godsell; Figure 2.3 from The impact of technology on the quality- value-loyalty chain: a research agenda, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 168–74 (Parasuraman, A. and Grewal, D. 2000), copy- right 2000 by Sage Publications, reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.; Figures 2.6, 2.8 and 2.10 from Developing Supply Chain Strategy: A Management Guide (Harrison, A. et al.) and Figure 3.12 from The Influence of Supply Chains on a Company’s Financial Performance (Johnson, M. and Templar, S.), reprinted by per- mission of Cranfield University; Figures 3.1–3.7 and Table 3.2 reprinted by per- mission of Sri Srikanthan; Figure 3.9 from Understanding the relationships between time and cost to improve supply chain performance, International Journal of Production Economics, doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2006.06.022 (Whicker, L., Bernon, M., Templar, S. and Mena, C. 2006), copyright 2006, with permission from Elsevier; Figure 4.2 reproduced with permission of Cadbury Schweppes; Table 4.7 from www.rlec.org, reprinted by permission of Reverse Logistics

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Executive Council; Table 4.8 from CSR Guideline for Suppliers, revision 2, October 2006, www.nec.co.jp/purchase/pdf/sc_csr_guideline_e.pdf, reprinted by permission of NEC Corporation; Figure 6.1 from Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management, 5th edn (Vollman, T.E., Berry, W.L., Whybark, D.C. and Jacobs, F.R. 2005), copyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Figures 7.7 and 7.8 from Working Paper Series, Cranfield University (Chapman, P. and van Hoek, R.), reprinted by permission of Dr Paul Chapman; Figure 8.3 from Clothes call, Supply Chain Technology News, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 18–21 (Kuhel, J. 2002), reprinted by permission of Penton Media; Figure 8.5 from ECR Europe, 2004, reprinted by permission of ECR Europe; Figure 9.7 reprinted by per- mission of Santoni Shoes; Figures 10.1 and 10.2 from The challenge of internal misalignment, International Journal of Logistics, Research and Applications, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 269–81 (van Hoek, R. and Mitchell, A. 2006), reprinted by permis- sion of Taylor & Francis Ltd; Figures 10.3 and 10.4 from Procter and Gamble Connect + Develop brochure, http://pg.t2h.yet2.com/t2h/page/homepage.
Case study 1.2 from JIT in a distribution environment, International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 32–4 (Eggleton, D.J. 1990) and Case study 9.4 from The pervasive human resource picture in interdependent supply relationships, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Vol. 27 Nol. 1 (Koulikoff-Souviron, M. and Harrison, A. 2007), reprinted by permis- sion of Emerald Group Publishing Limited; Extract on p. 34 from Sir Terry Leahy at the Guardian’s summit, Guardian Unlimited, 4 February 2005, reproduced with permission from Tesco Stores Limited; Case study 2.4 from Tears at teatime at IKEA, Sunday Times, 26 October 2003 (Arlidge, J.) © NI Syndication Limited, 26 October 2003, and Case study 4.2 from British prawns go to China to be shelled, Sunday Times, 20 May 2007 (Ungoed-Thomas, J.) © NI Syndication Limited, 20 May 2007; Case study 4.1 reproduced with permission of Cadbury Schweppes plc; Case study 4.2 from www.cranfield.ac.uk/cww/perspex, reprinted by permission of Cranfield University.
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How to use this book
This book is divided into four parts, centred around a model for logistics. The model for logistics is introduced in the first chapter of Part One, which places logistics in terms of its contribution to competitiveness, customer service and the creation of value. Part Two of the book focuses on leveraging logistics operations within the context of quality of service and cost performance objectives. Part Three focuses on working together, and Part Four pulls together four elements of leading-edge thinking in logistics, homing in on future challenges for the subject.
Part One
Competing through logistics
Part Three
Working together
Part Two
Leveraging logistics operations
Part Four
Changing the future
The book has been arranged to take you through the subject in logical stages. The limitation of a text presentation is that the subjects are then arranged in sequence, and links between stages have to be made by the reader. We have set out to facilitate cross-linkages by including:
G activities at the end of many of the sections, which are aimed at helping you to think about the issues raised and how they could be applied;
G discussion questions at the end of each chapter to help you to assess your under- standing of the issues raised, and to give you practice in using them;
G case studies, which draw together a number of issues and help you to think about how those issues are linked together in a practical setting. Use the study questions at the end of each case to guide your thinking.
We have sought continually to break up the text with figures, tables, activities and case studies, so you will rarely find two successive pages of continuous text. You should therefore regard the activities and case studies as an integral part of the method used in this book to help you to learn.

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Where possible, discuss the activities and case study questions in groups after you have prepared them individually. Discussion helps to broaden the agenda and create confidence in handling the issues. While you are studying this book, think about the logistics issues it raises – in your own firm, or ones that you know well, and in articles in newspapers such as the Financial Times and magazines such as Business Week. Follow up the web site addresses we have included in the text and again link them with the issues raised in the book.
Chapter 1 begins with a retail case study and examples, because of the obvi- ously close engagement of the end-customer. You will soon appreciate that we have balanced consumer supply chains with many industrial examples and case studies. We compare the issues in Table 2.2, page 40. Thus, we have presented logistics management and strategy by using examples from a broad range of sectors.
A few words on terminology are appropriate here. We have taken the view that logistics and supply chain management (SCM) are sufficiently different for sep- arate definitions to be needed. We have included these definitions in Chapter 1: logistics is a subset of SCM. ‘Supply chain’ and ‘supply network’ are used inter- changeably, although we favour ‘chain’ for a few organisations linked in series and ‘network’ to describe the more complex inter-linkages found in most situ- ations. Again, our position is explained in Chapter 1.
A summary is provided at the end of each chapter to help you to check that you have understood and absorbed the main points in that chapter. If you do not follow the summary points, go back and read the relevant section again. If need be, follow up on references or suggested further reading. Summaries are also there to help you with revision.
We have designed this book to help you to start out on the logistics journey and to feel confident with its issues. We hope that it will help you to improve supply chains of the future.

Plan of the book
Part One COMPETING THROUGH LOGISTICS
Chapter 1
Logistics and the supply chain
Chapter 3
Value and logistics costs
Part Two LEVERAGING LOGISTICS OPERATIONS
Chapter 4
Managing logistics internationally
Chapter 6
Supply chain planning and control
Chapter 2
Putting the end-customer first
Chapter 5
Managing the lead-time frontier
Chapter 7
The agile supply chain
Part Three WORKING TOGETHER
Chapter 8
Integrating the supply chain
Chapter 9
Purchasing and supply relationships
Part Four CHANGING THE FUTURE