With extensive suggestions that managers can use in practice, this book explores the strategic role of the supply chain, key managerial concepts in supply chain management, and the tools and techniques for supply chain design and planning. Understanding the Supply Chain. Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit &amp; Scope. Supply Chain Drivers and Obstacles. Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain. Aggregate Planning in the Supply Chain. Planning Supply and Demand in the Supply Chain: Managing Predictable Variability. Managing Economies of Scale in the Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory. Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory. Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability. Transportation in the Supply Chain. Facility Decisions: Network Design in the Supply Chain. Information Technology and the Supply Chain. Coordination in the Supply Chain. E-business and the Supply Chain. Financial Evaluation of Supply Chain Decisions. For consultants in general and specifically those that are active in supply chain consulting.

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations

Business & Money

CHOPRA, SUNIL

Meindl, Peter

Management & Leadership

Prentice Hall College Div.

For advanced undergraduate and MBA courses in Supply Chain Management. This book brings together the strategic role of the supply chain, key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and the tools and techniques for supply chain analysis. Every chapter gives suggestions that managers can use in practice and all methodologies are illustrated with an application in Excel. Fully updated material keeps the book on the forefront of supply chain management. Distribution networks (Chapter 4); Sourcing (Chapter 13), discusses different sourcing activities including supplier assessment, supplier contracts, design collaboration, and procurement; Price and revenue management (Chapter 15); Early coverage of designing the supply chain network—after developing a strategic framework, readers can discuss supply chain network design in Chapters 5 and 6 and then move on to demand, supply, inventory, and transportation planning; Information Technology in the Supply Chain (Chapter 17). For business professionals managing the supply chain.

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operations, Second Edition

Pearson College Div

Managing Business Process Flows: Principles of Operations Management

Computers & Technology

Anupindi, Raví

Deshmukh, Sudhakar D.

Computer Science

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Intended for MBA oriented Operations Management courses. This long awaited revision uses a process flows approach to operations to show students how managers can design and control business processes to increase profitability and decrease costs for the organization.

Managing Business Process Flows: Principles Of Operations Management

Van Mieghem, Jan A.

Zemel, Eitan

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.

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation

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. The fifth edition continues to increase the focus on global supply chain.

Supply Chain Management (5th Edition)

Pearson

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.

For MBA, engineering master, or senior-level undergraduate courses in supply chain management. A strategic framework for understanding supply chain management Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving readers the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. Using a strategic framework, readers are guided through all of the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing. The 7th Edition weaves in compelling case study examples to illustrate how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage and how poor supply chain management can damage an organization’s performance. With this text, readers gain a deeper understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp on the practical managerial levers that can improve supply chain performance.

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (What's New in Operations Management)

A structured, data-driven approach to understanding core operations management concepts. Anupindi shows how managers can design and manage process structure and process drivers to improve the performance of any business process. The third edition retains the general process view paradigm while providing a sharper, more streamlined presentation of the development of ideas in each chapter–all of which are illustrated with contemporary examples from practice.

Managing Business Process Flows

Deshmukh, Sudhakar

Van Mieghem, Jan

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. This text also provides strong coverage of analytic skills so that readers can gauge the effectiveness of the techniques described in the text. To better suit the importance of international business in today’s world, the fourth edition contains increased coverage of global supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operations, Second Edition

Managing Business Process Flows: Principles of Operations Management

Managing Business Process Flows: Principles Of Operations Management

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation

Supply Chain Management (5th Edition)

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (What's New in Operations Management)

Managing Business Process Flows

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation