Edward Sweeney’s new book – Supply Chain Management and Logistics in a Volatile Global Environment – was launched to coincide with the recent Logistics Ireland 2009 conference. The book is published by Blackhall Publishing. Following on from the acclaimed Perspectives on Supply Chain Management and Logistics (Blackhall Publishing, 2007) it explores a range supply chain management (SCM) and logistics challenges in the rapidly evolving global context. The book contains:

• Contributed chapters from international SCM thought leaders
• Reflections on specific issues happening across a variety of industries
• Implications of and tactics to deal with critical issues emerging from the SCM research agenda.

Professor Martin Christopher, Europe’s foremost SCM expert based at Cranfield University in the UK, launched the book and commended Edward and NITL for their contribution to the development of SCM in Ireland and further afield. He stated that “this book makes a real contribution to thinking in this field and has a richness of material across a variety of areas”. Edward Sweeney commented that “NITL is proud to have brought together a group of highly renowned experts from universities in Ireland, the UK (including Oxford, Cranfield and Heriot-Watt in Edinburgh) and further afield to contribute to this initiative”.

              Martin Christopher, Daniel Park, Edward Sweeney, Claudia Wagner, Colm Ryan 
                             and David Grant pictured at the book launch.

Aimed squarely at SCM and logistics professionals, this book will also reach a wider market of students, researchers and policy makers.