International Logistics
by Pierre A David
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Manufacturer: Atomic Dog
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 380
EAN: 9780759395732
ISBN: 075939573X
Label: Atomic Dog
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 393
Publication Date: 2006-12-28
Publisher: Atomic Dog
Studio: Atomic Dog
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book, easy to understand
Comment: I used this book for one of my packaging class in RIT. The language of the content makes this book very easy to read and understand. There are also helpful diagrams to better illustrate some of the important points. Important key terms are repeated on the side, which really helps when studying for an exam. The book covers a wide variety aspect of international logistics. It is a great book to understand the basics in logistic business; it is definitely worth your time and money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book
Comment: Actually,I have read this book once when i studied in U.S.A. 2 years ago. I've found myself understand clearfully when i am in the field especailly INCOTERM. This book is an easiest textbook, I have ever read. Information,Picture, chart, figures are up-to-date and useful. Great book i can tell!!!
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Summary: A word from the author
Comment: The content of this book is based on the material that I use in a graduate course in International Logistics that I started teaching twenty years ago and which I still teach every semester. The material has benefited from the feedback of hundreds of students, most of whom were professionals engaged in international business, either in international logistics or in a related field. Although the textbook is mostly written from a US perspective, I included many examples that are based outside of North America.
I wrote this book with the idea that its content should be useful to the users of international logistics services. I focused on making it relevant to managers who are involved in international supply chain activities and export or import goods: all of the relevant concepts are thoroughly explained, including Incoterms, documentation, international banking, international insurance, exchange rate exposure, Customs clearance, agency and distributorship sales contracts, packaging and overseas shipping. This perspective is in contrast with the majority of the material found in international transportation and logistics, which tends to focus on the perspective of the carrier [carrier operations, rate setting, hull insurance, for example]. Not that there is anything wrong with that perspective, but it is not what I set to accomplish.
I strived to make the book accessible to the reader: I took great care in making sure that all of the concepts were clearly and accurately portrayed without "simplifying" them in any way to make the reader's task easier, and I spent a lot of time to make sure that the vocabulary was precise and accurate, a perspective that I gained from years of teaching non-native speakers of English. Among what my students and people who attended my seminars have told me, it is the fact that the book is easy to read that they appreciated the most.
I also paid a lot of attention to the order in which the material was introduced, so that the approach was logical and so that the reader could understand a concept without having to refer to material that was presented later in the book. Given the interdependence of international logistics topics, this was a challenging undertaking, but I think I managed to achieve that goal. Nevertheless, I would strongly advise the interested reader to read the book once "quickly," before getting into some of its details.
Since the book introduces a number of topics that tend to be technical and are unfamiliar to many readers, I included more than seventy illustrations, tables and figures in the text supporting the concepts presented. All were chosen carefully to make sure they depicted accurately the concepts presented in the text: I used my own photographs, but I also have to thank more than twenty professional and amateur photographers who let me borrow their work.
Finally, the book has received strong academic support and has been adopted by most of the university logistics programs in the United States. It is also the reference textbook for the Certification in Transportation and Logistics offered by the American Society of Transportation and Logistics.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book, easy to understand
Comment: I used this book for one of my packaging class in RIT. The language of the content makes this book very easy to read and understand. There are also helpful diagrams to better illustrate some of the important points. Important key terms are repeated on the side, which really helps when studying for an exam. The book covers a wide variety aspect of international logistics. It is a great book to understand the basics in logistic business; it is definitely worth your time and money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book
Comment: Actually,I have read this book once when i studied in U.S.A. 2 years ago. I've found myself understand clearfully when i am in the field especailly INCOTERM. This book is an easiest textbook, I have ever read. Information,Picture, chart, figures are up-to-date and useful. Great book i can tell!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A word from the author
Comment: The content of this book is based on the material that I use in a graduate course in International Logistics that I started teaching twenty years ago and which I still teach every semester. The material has benefited from the feedback of hundreds of students, most of whom were professionals engaged in international business, either in international logistics or in a related field. Although the textbook is mostly written from a US perspective, I included many examples that are based outside of North America.
I wrote this book with the idea that its content should be useful to the users of international logistics services. I focused on making it relevant to managers who are involved in international supply chain activities and export or import goods: all of the relevant concepts are thoroughly explained, including Incoterms, documentation, international banking, international insurance, exchange rate exposure, Customs clearance, agency and distributorship sales contracts, packaging and overseas shipping. This perspective is in contrast with the majority of the material found in international transportation and logistics, which tends to focus on the perspective of the carrier [carrier operations, rate setting, hull insurance, for example]. Not that there is anything wrong with that perspective, but it is not what I set to accomplish.
I strived to make the book accessible to the reader: I took great care in making sure that all of the concepts were clearly and accurately portrayed without "simplifying" them in any way to make the reader's task easier, and I spent a lot of time to make sure that the vocabulary was precise and accurate, a perspective that I gained from years of teaching non-native speakers of English. Among what my students and people who attended my seminars have told me, it is the fact that the book is easy to read that they appreciated the most.
I also paid a lot of attention to the order in which the material was introduced, so that the approach was logical and so that the reader could understand a concept without having to refer to material that was presented later in the book. Given the interdependence of international logistics topics, this was a challenging undertaking, but I think I managed to achieve that goal. Nevertheless, I would strongly advise the interested reader to read the book once "quickly," before getting into some of its details.
Since the book introduces a number of topics that tend to be technical and are unfamiliar to many readers, I included more than seventy illustrations, tables and figures in the text supporting the concepts presented. All were chosen carefully to make sure they depicted accurately the concepts presented in the text: I used my own photographs, but I also have to thank more than twenty professional and amateur photographers who let me borrow their work.
Finally, the book has received strong academic support and has been adopted by most of the university logistics programs in the United States. It is also the reference textbook for the Certification in Transportation and Logistics offered by the American Society of Transportation and Logistics.
The text is directed at the users of international logistics services: it covers all of the concepts that are important to managers who are actively exporting or importing goods or are otherwise involved in international trade operations. All of the relevant issues are thoroughly explained, including documentation, terms of payment, terms of trade (Incoterms), exchange rate exposure, international insurance, Customs clearance, agency and distributorship sales contracts, packaging and transportation.
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