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Supply chain management : strategy, planning, and operation / Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl.

By: Chopra, Sunil, 1960-.
Contributor(s): Meindl, Peter, 1970-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ [Great Britain] : Prentice Hall, c2001Description: xvi,457p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0130264652 (No price); 9780130264657.Subject(s): Customer services -- Management | Delivery of goods -- Management | Industrial procurement | Marketing channels -- Management | Materials management | Physical distribution of goods -- Management | Business & Management | Purchasing & supply management | Distribution & logistics management | Management & management techniques | Business and ManagementDDC classification: 658.7 CHO
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For advanced undergraduate and MBA courses in Supply Chain Management. This text brings together 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. Every chapter gives suggestions that managers can use in practice. *The strategic importance of good supply chain design and management for every firm. *Helps students visualize how good supply chain design and management can be a competitive advantage for a firm, and understand how weaknesses in supply chain design and management can hurt the firm. *Presents methods (called levers and drivers) that are available when designing and managing a supply chain are described - Clearly spells out how these drivers may be used at the supply chain design, planning, and operation stages to improve performance. *Logistics and supply chain tools and techniques - Stresses the managerial context in which the tools are used and the managerial levers for improvement that they support. *Extensive use of Excel - To illustrate all methodologies. *Discussion of e-commerce and information technology - In the context of supply chain management. *Many s

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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 Obstacles
  • II Designing The Supply Chain Network
  • 4 Designing the Distribution Network in a Supply Chain
  • 5 Network Design in the Supply Chain
  • 6 Network Design in an Uncertain Environment
  • III Planning Demand And Supply
  • 7 Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
  • 8 Aggregate Planning in the Supply Chain
  • 9 Planning Supply and Demand in the Supply Chain: Managing Predictable Variability
  • IV Planning And Managing Inventories In A Supply Chain
  • 10 Managing Economies of Scale in the Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
  • 11 Managing Uncertainty in the Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
  • 12 Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability
  • V Sourcing, Transporting, And Pricing Product
  • 13 Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
  • 14 Transportation in the Supply Chain
  • 15 Pricing and Revenue Management in the Supply Chain
  • VI Coordination And Technology In The Supply Chain
  • 16 Coordination in the Supply Chain
  • 17 Information Technology and the Supply Chain
  • 18 e-business and the Supply Chain