Food supply chain management : issues for the hospitality and retail sectors / edited by Jane F. Eastham, Liz Sharples and Stephen D. Ball.
Contributor(s): Eastham, Jane F | Sharples, Liz
| Ball, Stephen D.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001Description: xx, 339 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0750647620; 9780750647625.Subject(s): Business logistics | Food industry and trade | Food industry and trade -- Management | Technology | Purchasing & supply management | Hospitality & service industries | Manufacturing industries | Travel guides: restaurants, cafes, inns, barsDDC classification: 333.47664 FOO Summary: This text looks specifically at the supply chain in the food and drink industry. It provides readers with an understanding of this subject as it is now, its growing importance, and where it is likely to be in the future.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The key to the success of a company is their ability to co-ordinate the key supply chain i.e their key suppliers and suppliers of suppliers. 'Food and Drink Supply Chain Management' looks specifically at the supply chain in the food and drink industry to provide readers with an understanding of the areas as it is now and its growing importance, and where it is going in the future. 'Food and Drink Supply Chain Management' is the first to take an in-depth view into the supply chain function in the hospitality and food retail sectors. Authored by a range of expert contributors the text looks at issues such as: * New food processes and GM foods * Volume catering and JIT (Just In Time) and Food Safety * Relationships between companies and with stakeholders and responsibilities to these groups * The internationalisation of the food chain * The future of the food and drink supply chain and its management Examples and case studies from large international retail and hospitality organizations are used, such as: Bass, Stakis (Hilton), and Tesco, amongst others, to illustrate good and bad practice.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text looks specifically at the supply chain in the food and drink industry. It provides readers with an understanding of this subject as it is now, its growing importance, and where it is likely to be in the future.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- The catering and food retail industries: a contextual insight
- Food and Society
- The food supply chain
- Concepts of collaboration in supply chain management
- Inter firm relationships in the food supply chain
- Stakeholders, ethics and social responsibility in the food supply chain
- Strategic supply and the management of relationships
- Logistics and information management
- Relationship Marketing
- Human Resource Management in the extended organisation
- Supply chains: issues in management accounting
- Supply Chain Perspectives - Internationalisation of the Supply Chain
- The internationalisation of the Hospitality industry
- Internationalisation of food retailing
- Contemporary issues - The case of GM food
- European trends in food safety: implications for the hotel sector
- European developments in efficient consumer response
- The marketing of seafood in New South Wales, Australia: the impact of de-regulation
- Supply chain restructuring in economics in transition: a case of the Hungarian dairy sector
- The future of the supply chain - Future issues in european supply chain management
- The future of the food supply chain: a perspective looking up the chain
- e-Shopping: the peapod grocery experience
- Changes in supply chain structure: the impact of expanding consumer choice