(CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL) -- The fourth edition of the book, Integral Logistics Management: Operations and Supply Chain Management Within and Across Companies, by Paul Schönsleben (CRC Press, 2011) is the most complete resource for efficient operations, effective planning, and improving on the challenges and opportunities in today’s global supply chains.

“Changes in the world outside the company alter the way that we look at problems and priorities in the company itself. This presents new challenges to company logistics and to planning and control of corresponding business processes.” Those words from the foreword of the first edition, written almost 12 years ago, are perhaps more true now than ever before.

Incorporating the elements that made previous editions popular with students and professors, the fourth edition reflects the expansion of the role of supply-chain management to include all areas of industry and all objects in the product life cycle.

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