• Logistics profile: Creating a State-of-the-Art VW Beetle Production Facility in Mexico

• Introduction

• Overview of strategic planning for logistics and supply chain management
- historical perspective on strategy
- definitions
- strategy classification

• Time-based strategies
- reducing cycle time
- time-reduction logistics initiatives

• Asset productivity strategies
- inventory reduction
- supply chain technology: the need for real-time, supply chain visibility
- facility utilization
- equipment utilization strategies
- third-party/contract logistics services

• Technology-based strategies

• Relationship-based strategies
- collaboration
- value nets

• Synthesis and future directions
- shift from vertical to virtual
- integration
- on the line: Modus Media International
- collaboration
- knowledge of core competencies
- technology and connectivity
- managing-the-people skills
- comprehensive supply chain
- perspective
- summary
- study questions
- notes
- case 16-1: vector SCM