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This text 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

• Linking strategic perspective, supply chain concepts, and solution methodologies throughout the text. This is supported by key points throughout the text.
  • Students are able to articulate the strategic important of supply chain thinking and support their ideas with evidence that can be built using models.

What type of software do you use to solve the different techniques?  

• Extensive use of Excel to illustrate all solution methodologies for network design, demand and supply planning, inventory management, and transportation management (Chapters 5-14). Excel has been used and explained in a way that students should easily be able to implement these models.
  • Students can easily understand how every model used is constructed using Excel and then can easily build their own models.

Do you assign homework?

• Extensive exercises supporting each chapter with quantitative material throughout text. New problems have been added to every chapter with quantitative content (Chapters 5-14). There are enough problems in the text that faculty can solve some in class and still have an ample assortment left over to assign as homework.
  • The homework assignments allow students to use all the methodologies discussed in the text. 

Do you discuss the role of IT as a driver to Supply Chain Performance?

•  A section has been added to all relevant chapters that discusses the role of IT for each driver of supply chain performance. Such discussions show up in chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 16.
  • Today IT plays a significant role in the supply chain. It is critical that students are aware of how IT is used in different parts of the supply chain, whom the major vendors of IT software are, and what are the potential pitfalls of IT implementation.

Do you discuss the importance of setting metrics by which to measure supply chain management success?

• Identification of key supply chain metrics in Chapter 3 is followed by a discussion in the rest of the text. Chapter 3 identifies the metrics related to each supply chain driver.
  • It is crucial for students to identify the metrics that should be tracked to judge supply chain performance. All supply chain changes should then be linked to these metrics and the expected improvement. Companies are now focusing on identifying key metrics to manage supply chain performance.

New To This Edition

1.  Chapter 3:  Key supply chain metrics added to the discussion of drivers of supply chain performance.

2.  Chapter 4 now includes an early discussion of e-business models moved up from Chapter 18.  Chapter 18 has now been removed but content appears within other chapters.  Discussion is now in the context of the principles for designing distribution systems.  This naturally leads to a focused discussion on designing distribution systems for e-business.

3.  New section of the "Role of IT" and "Risk Management" for each supply chain driver throughout most chapters.  

4.  Quantitative exercises added at the end of each chapter.

5.  Detailed discussion added on "Why outsource?" and the role of third party logistics providers (3PLs) to Chapter 14 (sourcing). 

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

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

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

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

Courses

Supply Chain Management  [COMPREHENSIVE TEXTS]   (Decision Science)
Logistics/Supply Chain Management  [CORE TEXTS]   (Marketing)
Logistics Engineering  [OTHER TITLES OF INTEREST]   (Industrial Engineering)

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• Supply Chain Management, 5/E
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  ©2013  |  Prentice Hall  |  Cloth; 528 pp  |  Instock
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  For undergraduate and graduate supply chain management courses.
  
  Illustrating the key drivers in effective supply chain management.
  
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• Supply Chain Management, 4/E
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  ©2010  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 528 pp  |  Instock
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  For undergraduate and graduate supply chain management courses.
  
  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 students understand what creates a competitive advantage. This text also provides strong coverage of analytic skills so that students 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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