Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide
In Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide, best-selling author David Taylor explains how to assemble a killer supply chain using the knowledge, technology, and tools employed in supply-chain success stories. Using his signature fast-track summaries and informative graphics, Taylor offers a clear roadmap to understanding and solving the complex problems of supply-chain management.
Modern manufacturing has driven down the time and cost of the production process, leaving supply chains as the final frontier for cost reduction and competitive advantage. Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide will quickly give managers the foundation they need to contribute effectively to their company's supply-chain success.
Table of Content
Part I: CHALLENGE.
- The New Competition.
- The Rules of the Game.
- Winning as a Team.
Part II: SOLUTION.
- Supply Chains as Systems.
- Modeling the Supply Chain.
- Supply Chain Software.
Part III: OPERATION.
- Meeting Demand.
- Maintaining Supply.
- Measuring Performance.
Part IV: PLANNING.
- Forecasting Demand.
- Scheduling Supply.
- Improving Performance.
Part V: DESIGN.
- Mastering Demand.
- Designing the Chain
- Maximizing Performance.
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Salient Features
- Proven author and supply chain expert Taylor provides a high-level overview that shows how supply chain initiatives can contribute to overall business success
- Understand and learn to solve the complex problems presented by supply chain management
- Features numerous illustrations, sidebar summaries, and Exploration and Simulation tools and exercises
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