物流产业的国际性要求物流管理的学生有物流专业英语的阅读、翻译、写作以及对话能力,只有这样,才能顺应全球经济一体化和我国改革开放对于复合型物流人才的需要。
本教材正是为适应这种形势的需要而编写的。本教材以经营的眼光来看待物流产业的不同领域,在很大程度上反映了物流产业的最新发展。最新物流领域动向和资料的编人使得本教材成为具有综合性、前沿性的大中专物流英文教材。它不仅着重于物流市场营销和物流工程的内容,还综合了物流的各种功能和供应链管理的部分内容。
本教材体系明确,分18课,每篇课文均来自于物流业相对发达的欧美国家的最新研究资料,涵盖了物流专业最新的研究成果,力求精练,克服了以往有些教材内容过于繁杂的缺点,利于同学结合所学物流知识进行思考和讨论。每篇课文之后均设有:Words and Expressions、Notes和Exercises。
Words and Expressions部分,用于列出新词、难词;
Notes部分,重点对复杂句型、长句或者相关行业背景予以说明,以便于理解;
Exercises部分,主要加深学生对课文的理解,并考查学生对课文主要词汇特别是专业词汇的理解和运用,培养学生物流专业英语的口语及书面表达能力。
前言
Lesson One
The Report of China's Logistics
Lesson Two
The Five Core Disciplines of Strategic Supply Chain Management
Lesson Three
Risk Management in the Global Supply Chain
Lesson Four
Outsourced Postponement -- A Supply Chain Opportunity
Lesson Five
Functions of an Information System
Lesson Six
Treat Your 3PL as a Partner
Lesson Seven
The Distribution Center Evolution Rolls Along
Lesson Eight
Today's Distribution Center
Lesson Nine
Transportation & Logistics
Lesson Ten
Green Packaging: a Guideline and Tools for Environmentally Sound
Packaging Practices for Computer and Electronics Products
Lesson Eleven
Warehouse Management
Lesson Twelve
Inventory Management: U.S. Needs to Spend Intelligently on Security
without Risking JIT Inventory Programs, Experts Say
Lesson Thirteen
What Is Logistics Engineering?
Lesson Fourteen
E-Commerce
Lesson Fifteen
Explosive Growth for Logistics Costs
Lesson Sixteen
Measuring and Selling the Value of Logistics
Lesson Seventeen
What ts Reverse Logistics?
Lesson Eighteen
Marketing Logistics as a Factor of Effective Business Operation
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