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I graduated in international business and logistics 14 years ago, worked at a freight forwarder, customs broker, ocean carrier, and a manufacturer. Broadly, thi

I graduated in international business and logistics 14 years ago, worked at a freight forwarder, customs broker, ocean carrier, and a manufacturer. Broadly, this topic can be broken up into 3 overlapping concerns: - Operations (product, plant, human/physical resources) - Supply Chain (production, network inflows/outflows) - Logistics (warehousing, transportation) All care about having reliable partners, quality, efficiency, and timing (procurement, production, and fulfillment). I recommend you do a combination of lightweight textbooks for a high level overview, (like Wiley "for dummies") and a few case study style books that provide history and deep context (like "The Goal" and "Lean Thinking" by James Womack). These last two books are classics dealing with physical production. However, don't overlook service operations like healthcare and military which are good examples where the end customers primary concern is strategic procurement and distribution. I don't have any recommendations for these industries but maybe someone else.

heymijo 7y ago
> (like "The Goal"...These last two books are classics dealing with physical production. The Phoenix Project is a 2013 IT/DevOps version of The Goal [0]. It's an easy read that would be a complementary follow up to The Goal. It would help in understanding principles from The Goal outside of physical production. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-project https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
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mikorym 7y ago
So, to put your summary in a diagram: p_1 p_2 o_1 -----> o_2 -----> o_3 v_1 v_2 p: the product v: the vessel o: the state, usually implies a location Operations is largely o, Supply chain is largely the facilitation of p, Logistics is largely the facilitation of v.
emptysands 7y ago
I use four areas. BUY, MOVE, STORE and SUPPORT. The first three relate to your areas - procurement, logistics, operations. The last is things like quality control and Master data.
caaaadr 7y ago
Thank you for the 3-part breakdown, that helped me make more sense out of the rest of the thread materials having those definitions! Yeah I think you are right on the strategy of doing an 'overview'/surveyish book and then diving deep

heymijo 7y ago

> (like "The Goal"...These last two books are classics dealing with physical production. The Phoenix Project is a 2013 IT/DevOps version of The Goal [0]. It's an easy read that would be a complementary follow up to The Goal. It would help in understanding principles from The Goal outside of physical production. [0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-project https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...

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mikorym 7y ago

So, to put your summary in a diagram: p_1 p_2 o_1 -----> o_2 -----> o_3 v_1 v_2 p: the product v: the vessel o: the state, usually implies a location Operations is largely o, Supply chain is largely the facilitation of p, Logistics is largely the facilitation of v.

emptysands 7y ago

I use four areas. BUY, MOVE, STORE and SUPPORT. The first three relate to your areas - procurement, logistics, operations. The last is things like quality control and Master data.

caaaadr 7y ago

Thank you for the 3-part breakdown, that helped me make more sense out of the rest of the thread materials having those definitions! Yeah I think you are right on the strategy of doing an 'overview'/surveyish book and then diving deep