Global logistics entails tradeoffs in facility location distribution networks the routing and
scheduling of deliveries by different modes of travel (e.g. air water truck rail)
procurement and the overall management of international supply chains. In an increasingly
global economy then logistics has become a very important matter in the success or failure of
an organization. It is an integral part of supply chain management that involves not just
operations management considerations but production engineering and regional science issues as
well. As Director of the prestigious Waterloo Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Research Group (WATMIMS) which specializes in logistics and manufacturing Jim Bookbinder is
uniquely qualified to edit a handbook on global logistics. He has aligned a set of prominent
contributors for this volume. The chapters in the Handbook are organized into discrete sections
that examine modes logistics in particular countries operations within a free-trade zone
innovative features impacting international logistics case studies of specific companies and
a look toward the future. Contributors are from the Americas Europe and Asia and they push
the state of the art in areas such as trade vs. security border issues cabotage within NAFTA
Green logistics corridors within the EU inland ports direct-to-store considerations and all
the questions that need to be confronted in any given region. This will certainly appeal to
researchers and practitioners alike and could serve as required or supplementary reading in
graduate-level logistics courses as well.
