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

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.

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.

Description The text employs a strategic framework that identifies and illustrates facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing as the key drivers of supply chain performance in order to help students understand what creates a competitive advantage. The strategic framework and concepts discussed in the text are tied together through a variety of examples that show how a combination of concepts is needed to achieve significant increases in performance. Global example boxes have been added throughout the text Case studies have been used in the book to explain and illustrate how companies are successfully using the key drivers of the supply chain Appendices in chapters help students understand supply chain concepts like safety inventory calculations and inventory cost consequences of variability demand Key points have been used in the chapters to summarize the important concepts studied Use of Indian examples like Jaipur Rugs, Asian Paints, OM Logistics, Simbhaoli Sugar, Subhiksha and Dr. Reddy's Laboratories NEW! Chapter 6 is focused on the design of global supply chain networks The discussion of globalization in Chapter 14 on sourcing has been expanded Part I: Building a Strategic Framework to Analyze Supply Chains Understanding the Supply Chain Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics Part II: Designing the Supply Chain Network Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business Network Design in the Supply Chain Designing Global Supply Chain Networks Part III: Planning Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain Sales and Operations Planning: Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain Part IV :Planning and Managing Inventories 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 Av

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Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations

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

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

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operations