Synopses & Reviews
Supply Chain Management illustrates the key drivers of good supply chain management in order to help students understand what creates a competitive advantage.
Understanding the Supply Chain; Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope; Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics; Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business; Network Design in the Supply Chain; Designing Global Supply Chain Networks; Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain; Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain; Sales and Operations Planning: Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain; Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain; Cycle Inventory; Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory; Determining the Optimal Level of Product Availability; Transportation in a Supply Chain; Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain; Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain; Information Technology in a Supply Chain; Coordination in a Supply Chain
For anyone interested in learning the strategic importance of good supply chain design, planning, and operation for every firm.
Synopsis
This book brings together the strategic role of the supply chain, key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and the underlying tools and techniques for supply chain analysis. Students are able to articulate the strategic importance of supply chain thinking and support their ideas with evidence that can be built using models.
Table of Contents
PART I: BUILDING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE SUPPLY CHAINS
Chapter 1: Understanding the Supply Chain
Chapter 2: Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope
Chapter 3: Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics
PART II: DESIGNING THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK
Chapter 4: Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business
Chapter 5: Network Design in the Supply Chain
Chapter 6: Network Design in an Uncertain Environment
PART III: Planning Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain
Chapter 7: Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
Chapter 8: Aggregate Planning in the Supply Chain
Chapter 9: Planning Supply and Demand in the Supply Chain: Managing Predictable Variability
PART IV: Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain
Chapter 10: Managing Economies of Scale in the Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
Chapter 11: Managing Uncertainty in the Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
Chapter 12: Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability
PART V: Designing and Planning Transportation Networks
Chapter 13: Transportation in the Supply Chain
PART VI: Managing Cross-Functional Drivers in the Supply Chain
Chapter 14: Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
Chapter 15: Pricing and Revenue Management in the Supply Chain
Chapter 16: Information Technology and the Supply Chain
Chapter 17: Coordination in the Supply Chain