Life Cycle Logistics Professional Reading List

Life Cycle Logistics Professional Reading List (November 2022)

1. Logistics Engineering & Designing for Supportability

 

• Affordable Reliability Engineering: Life-Cycle Cost Analysis for Sustainability & Logistical Support by William R. Wessels & Daniel Sillivant (CRC Press – Taylor & Francis Group)
• Integrated Logistics Support Handbook by James V. Jones (SOLE Press)
• Introduction to Reliability Engineering by E. E. Lewis (John Wiley & Sons)
• Logistics: Principles and Applications By J.W. Langford (McGraw Hill)
• Logistics Engineering and Management by Benjamin S. Blanchard (Prentice Hall)
• Logistics Support Analysis Handbook by James V. Jones (TAB Books)
• Quantitative Measurements for Logistics by Philip T. Frohne, CPL (SOLE Press)
• Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability By Jezdimir Knezevic (McGraw Hill)
• Systems Engineering Management By Benjamin S. Blanchard (John Wiley & Sons)
• Design for Maintainability By Louis J. Gullo & Jack Dixon (Wiley)
• Maintainability: A Key to Effective Serviceability and Maintenance Management By Benjamin S Blanchard, Dinesh Verma, Elmer L Peterson (John Wiley & Sons)

2. Supply Chain Management

 

• Logistics & Supply Chain Management: Creating Value-Adding Networks By Martin Christopher (Prentice Hall Financial Times)
• Designing & Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies By David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky, and Edith Simchi-Levi (McGraw Hill)
• Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management By John T. Mentzer (Sage Publications)
• The Management of Business Logistics: A Supply Chain Perspective By John J. Coyle, Edward J. Bardi, and C. John Langley (South-Western-Thomson Learning)
• Essentials of Supply Chain Management By Michael H. Hugos (John Wiley & Sons)
• Logistical Management: The Integrated Supply Chain Process By Donald J. Bowersox and David J. Closs (McGraw Hill)
• 3D Printing WILL Rock the World By John Hornick (CreateSpace)
• Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model By Peter Bolstorff and Robert Rosenbaum (American Management Association)
• Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resiliency in Logistics By Donald Waters (KoganPage)
• Supply Chain Resilience: Insights from Theory and Practice By Sebastian Kummer, Tina Wakolbinger, Lydia Novoszel, Alexander M. Geske (Springer)

3. Business Case Analysis & Data Analytics

 

• The Business Case Guide By Marty J. Schmidt (Solution Matrix Limited)
• Business Case Essentials: A Guide to Structure and Content By Marty J. Schmidt (Solution Matrix Limited)
• Business Case Analysis: Examples, Concepts & Techniques – Featuring the “8 Day BCA” By James W. Brannock (STS Publications)
• Engineering Economy By W.J. Fabrycky and J. H. Mize (Prentice Hill)
• Be Data Literate: The Data Literacy Skills Everyone Needs to Succeed By Jordon Morrow (KaganPage)

4. Continuous Product & Process Improvement

 

• The Memory Jogger II: A Pocket Guide of Tools for Continuous Improvement and Effective Planning (Goal/QPC-Publication)
• Lean Logistics: the Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials & Goods By Michel Baudin (Productivity Press)
• Seeing What’s Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change By Clayton M. Christenson, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth (Harvard Business School Press)
• Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook By Michael George, David Rowlands, Mark Price and John Maxey (McGraw-Hill)
• The Goal By Eliyahu Goldratt (North River Press Publishing)

5. Organizational Excellence, Customer Focus & Strategic Transformation

• Creech Blue: Gen Bill Creech and the Reformation of the Tactical Air Forces, 1978-1984 By Lt Col James C. Slife (Air University Press) (Available from www.DTIC.mil)
• Defense Logistics for the 21st Century By William G.T. Tuttle (Naval Institute Press)
• Strategic Logistics Management By James Stock and Douglas Lambert (McGraw-Hill)
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins (Harper Business)
• The Power of Alignment: How Great Companies Stay Centered and Accomplish Extraordinary Things By George Labovitz and Victor Rosansky (John Wiley & Sons)
• Augustine’s Laws: A Top Executive Looks at Complexities & Conundrums of Today’s Business Management By Norman R. Augustine (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
• Leading a Learning Revolution: The Story Behind DAU’s Reinvention of Training By Frank J. Anderson, Christopher R. Hardy, and Jeffrey Leeson (Pfeiffer)
• Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II By Arthur Herman (Random House)
• Performance Based Logistics: A Contractor’s Guide to Life Cycle Product Support Management By Steve Geary, Kate Vitasek, et al (Supply Chain Visions)
• The Innovators Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business By Clayton Christensen (Harper Collins)

6. Leadership and Management

• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People By Stephen R. Covey (Free Press)
• The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything By Stephen M.R. Covey (Free Press)
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You By John C. Maxwell (Thomas Nelson)
• The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization By John C. Maxwell (Thomas Nelson)
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business By Charles Duhigg (Random House)
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There By Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter (Hyperion)
• Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times By Jon M. Huntsman (Pearson Education)
• Who Moved My Cheese? By Spencer Johnson, MD (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life By John G. Miller (G.P. Putman’s Sons/Penguin Books)
• The Team Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide for Team Members (Goal/QPC-Publication)
• Project Management Memory Jogger (Goal/QPC Publication)
• The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell By Oren Harari (McGraw Hill)
• Credibility: How Leaders Gain & Lose It, Why People Demand It By James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner (Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint)
• Supporting the Doughboys: US Army Logistics and Personnel During World War I By Leo P. Hirrel (Ft. Leavenworth: Combat Studies Institute Press)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable By Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass: A Wiley Imprint)
• The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA By Diane Vaughan (The University of Chicago)
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success By William Thorndike (Harvard Business Press)
• The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations By Dietrich Dorner (Metropolitan Books)
• Orbiting the Giant Hairball By Gordon MacKenzie (Viking)
• XLR8 (Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World) By John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Review Press)

 

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