Name: Supply Chain Management
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ISBN: 9780134731889

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, 7th Edition, is a textbook that introduces high-level strategy alongside practical analytical tools to solve supply chain problems. Developed to clarify logistical decision-making, the text applies a strategic framework focused on core performance drivers, including facilities, inventory, and transportation.

Key areas of coverage include distribution network design, demand and supply coordination, and the management of cross-functional drivers. The presentation outlines methods for balancing inventory requirements, forecasting customer demand, and aligning operational processes across participating organizations.

New case studies in this edition illustrate how effective supply chain decisions yield a competitive edge, while also showing how operational failures can impair organizational performance.

Table of Contents

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 Online Sales
Chapter 5: Network Design in the Supply Chain
Chapter 6: Designing Global Supply Chain Networks
Chapter 7: Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
Chapter 8: Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain
Chapter 9: Sales and Operations Planning in a Supply Chain
Chapter 10: Coordination in a Supply Chain
Chapter 11: Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
- • Appendix 11A: Economic Order Quantity
Chapter 12: Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
- • Appendix 12A: The Normal
- • Appendix 12B: The Normal Distribution in Excel
- • Appendix 12C: Expected Shortage per Replenishment Cycle
- • Appendix 12D: Evaluating Safety Inventory for Slow-Moving Items
Chapter 13: Linking Product Availability to Profits
- • Appendix 13A: Optimal Level of Product Availability
- • Appendix 13B: An Intermediate Evaluation
- • Appendix 13C: Expected Profit from an Order
- • Appendix 13D: Expected Overstock from an Order
- • Appendix 13E: Expected Understock from an Order
- • Appendix 13F: Simulation Using Spreadsheets
Chapter 14: Transportation in a Supply Chain
Chapter 15: Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
Chapter 16: Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain
Chapter 17: Sustainability and the Supply Chain
Chapter 1: Information Technology in a Supply Chain

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