Top Logistics and Supply Chain Reading List (excluding textbooks)

When I teach logistics and supply chain management, I always ask students to review a book about logistics and supply chain management (excluding textbooks). Here is the list of the books I think worth reading and will give the reader a good example of the logistics and supply chain concept. Some books also discuss about the value chain concept.

The Machine that Changed the World
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jone, Daniel Roos

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox

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Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
by James P. Womack , Daniel T. Jones

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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
By Brad Stone

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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
By Thomas L. Friedman

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Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People
By Joseph Michelli

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The Samsung Way: Transformational Management Strategies from the World Leader in Innovation and Design
By Jaeyong Song , Kyungmook Lee

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How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt , Jonathan Rosenberg

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Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War
By Jeffrey L. Cruikshank William G. Pagonis

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
By Marc Levinson

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Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
by Donald W. Engels

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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer
By Jeffrey Liker

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