Supply Chain Management represents a central challenge for successful companies in the competitive landscape of value creation chains. Holger Beckmann provides a systematic, integral approach to logistics planning that forms the foundation for effective and highly efficient supply chains. The author presents a systematic guide outlining the steps necessary for process-oriented logistics planning. The process chain model illustrates an approach that enables targeted analysis and optimization of the supply chain. Basic concepts that serve as entry points for optimizing the supply chain are described in detail. The content includes the concept and planning system of supply chain management, the framework for logistics design, models and perspectives of the process chain paradigm, as well as process optimization. The target audiences are lecturers and students of business administration.