Supply Chain Management

For MBA or senior level undergraduate supply chain management courses.

 A Strategic Framework for Understanding Supply Chain Management

Borne from a course on supply chain management taught at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems.

The Sixth Edition weaves in compelling case study examples, providing students with clear insight into how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage. On the flip side, students also learn the dangers of poor supply chain management, and how it can damage an organization’s overall health and performance.

Using a strategic framework, students are guided through all of the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing.  By the end of the course, students will walk away with a deep understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp on the practical managerial levers to pull in order to improve supply chain performance.

Illustrating the key drivers in effective supply chain management.

Supply Chain Management illustrates the key drivers of good supply chain management in order to help readers understand what creates a competitive advantage.

Borne from a course on supply chain management taught at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. The Sixth Edition weaves in compelling case study examples, providing students with clear insight into how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage. On the flip side, students also learn the dangers of poor supply chain management, and how it can damage an organization's overall health and performance. Using a strategic framework, students are guided through all of the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing. By the end of the course, students will walk away with a deep understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp on the practical managerial levers to pull in order to improve supply chain performance.

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Suitable for readers wanting an overview of supply chain management and help with solving supply chain problems.

For MBA or senior level undergraduate supply chain management courses.

 A Strategic Framework for Understanding Supply Chain Management

Borne from a course on supply chain management taught at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems.

The Sixth Edition weaves in compelling case study examples, providing students with clear insight into how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage. On the flip side, students also learn the dangers of poor supply chain management, and how it can damage an organization’s overall health and performance.

  Using a strategic framework, students are guided through all of the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing.  By the end of the course, students will walk away with a deep understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp on the practical managerial levers to pull in order to improve supply chain performance

SUNIL CHOPRA

Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Kellogg School of Management. He has served as the interim dean and senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching, and the codirector of the MMM program, a joint dual-degree program between the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He has a PhD in operations research from SUNY at Stony Brook. Prior to joining Kellogg, he taught at New York University and spent a year at IBM Research.

Professor Chopra’s research and teaching interests are in supply chain and logistics management, operations management, and the design of telecommunication networks. He has won several teaching awards at the MBA and Executive programs of Kellogg. He has authored more than 40 papers and two books.

He has been a department editor for Management Science and an associate editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Decision Sciences Journal. His recent research has focused on understanding supply chain risk and devising effective risk mitigation strategies. He has also consulted for several firms in the area of supply chain and operations management.

PETER MEINDL

Peter Meindl is a portfolio manager with Kepos Capital in New York. Previously, he was a research officer with Barclays Global Investors, a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and Mercer Management Consulting, and the director of strategy with i2 Technologies. He holds PhD, MS, BS, and BA degrees from Stanford, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

The first edition of this book won the prestigious Book of the Year award in 2002 from the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

PART I: BUILDING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE SUPPLY CHAINS

1.     Understanding the Supply Chain

2.      Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope

3.      Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics

PART II: DESIGNING THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK

4.      Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to Online Sales

5.      Network Design in the Supply Chain

6.      Designing Global Supply Chain Networks

PART III: PLANNING AND COORDINATING DEMAND AND SUPPLY IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

7.      Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain

8.      Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain

9.      Sales and Operations Planning: Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain

10.   Coordination in a Supply Chain

PART IV: PLANNING AND MANAGING INVENTORIES IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

11.   Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory

12.   Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory

13.   Determining the Optimal Level of Product Availability

PART V: DESIGNING AND PLANNING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS

14.   Transportation in a Supply Chain

PART VI: MANAGING CROSS-FUNCTIONAL DRIVERS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

15.   Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain

16.   Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain

17.   Sustainability and the Supply Chain

PART VII: ONLINE CHAPTER

A.    Information Technology in a Supply Chain