Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This wide-ranging reader locates supply chain management, lean production and related practice within the holistic concept of total product systems.
Demonstrates the strategic relevance of managing supply chains and supply networks to organizational performance and to a range of business functions, including finance, design, production, environmental management, information systems, and marketing.
Considers sustainable supply chain management across the service, manufacturing and process sectors.
Reflects the radical changes in organizational beliefs, practices and processes that are necessary for a shift to supply chain management in contemporary, global, competitive conditions.
Considers particular issues and challenges for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.
Contains readings that are interdisciplinary and international in focus.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Part I Theoretical and Conceptual Issues
• Introduction
• From Supply Chains to Total Production Systems
• Supply Chain Management: Relationships, Chains and Networks
• Globalisation and Unequalisation: What Can Be Learnt from Value Chain Analysis?
• Lean Production and the Toyota Production System û Or, the Case of the Forgotten Production Concepts
• Lean Production in a Changing Competitive World: A Japanese Perspective
• Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution
• Intangibles: The Soft Side of Innovation: Pim den Hertog, Rob Bilderbeek and Sven Maltha
• The Environmental Challenge for Supply-Chain Management
• Part II Interorganizational Relationships
• Introduction
• BuyerûSupplier Relationships: A Case Study of a Japanese and Western Alliance
• Avoid the Pitfalls in Supplier Development
• Japanese Automakers, US Suppliers and Supply Chain Superiority
• Innovation and Competition in UK Supermarkets
• The æSimilarityÆ and æHeterogeneityÆ Theses in Studying Innovation: Evidence from the End-of-Life Vehicle Case
• Supply Chains and Management Accounting
• Approaches to Child Labour in the Supply Chain
• Part III Change Within Organizations
• Introduction
• Manufacturing Strategy Regained: Evidence for the Demise of Best-Practice
• A Third-Culture Plant
• Lean Production: A Study of Application in a Traditional Manufacturing Environment
• Lean Production and Sustainable Competitive Advantage
• Supporting Small Businesses in their Transition to Lean Production
• Change Processes Towards Lean Production: The Role of the Management Accounting System: Pär Åhlström and Christer Karlsson
• Target Costing as a Strategic Tool
• Supply-Chain Management for Recoverable Manufacturing Systems
• Part IV Issues for SMEs
• Introduction
• The Secrets of Industry are in the Air or æOn the Jungle Drums in the VillageÆ: Traded and Untraded Knowledge and Expertise Interdependencies between SMEs
• Global Production and Local Jobs: Can Global Enterprise Networks Be Used as Levers for Local Development?
• The Role of an Integrator Organisation in a Virtual Supply Chain
• Issues on Partnering: Evidences from Subcontracting in Aeronautics
• Implementation of Just-in-Time Methodology in a Small Company
• Learning from Others: Benchmarking in Diverse Tourism Enterprises
• E-business and E-supply Strategy in Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMEs)
• Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

James Warren is Staff Tutor in Technology at the Open University in the East of England, and is a member of CASCAID and the Energy and Environment Research Unit (EERU).

Ruth Carter is Staff Tutor in Technology at the Open University in Yorkshire, and is a member of CASCAID.