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Supply Chain Management, 4/e

Supply Chain Management, 4/e

Author(s):
  • Sunil Chopra
  • Peter Meindl
  • D.V. Kalra
    • Author: Sunil Chopra
    • ISBN:9788131730713
    • Price: Rs. 495.00
    • Pages:578
    • Imprint:Pearson Education
    • Binding:Paperback
    • Status:Available


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    The text employs a strategic framework that identifies and illustrates facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing as the key drivers of supply chain performance in order to help students understand what creates a competitive advantage. The strategic framework and concepts discussed in the text are tied together through a variety of examples that show how a combination of concepts is needed to achieve significant increases in performance.

    Table of Content

    Part 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 Metrics
    Part II: Designing the Supply Chain Network
    1. Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to e-Business
    2. Network Design in the Supply Chain
    3. Designing Global Supply Chain Networks
    Part III: Planning Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain
    1. Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
    2. Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain
    3. Sales and Operations Planning: Planning Supply and Demand in a Supply Chain
    Part IV :Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain
    1. Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain:Cycle Inventory
    2. Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain Safety Inventory
    3. Determining the Optimal Level of Product Availability
    Part V: Designing and Planning Transportation Networks
    1. Transportation in a Supply Chain
    Part VI: Managing Cross-Functional Drivers in a Supply Chain
    1. Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
    2. Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain

    Salient Features

    • Global example boxes have been added throughout the text
    • Case studies have been used in the book to explain and illustrate how companies are successfully using the key drivers of the supply chain
    • Appendices in chapters help students understand supply chain concepts like safety inventory calculations and inventory cost consequences of variability demand
    • Key points have been used in the chapters to summarize the important concepts studied
    • Use of Indian examples like Jaipur Rugs, Asian Paints, OM Logistics, Simbhaoli Sugar, Subhiksha and Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories
    • NEW! Chapter 6 is focused on the design of global supply chain networks
    • The discussion of globalization in Chapter 14 on sourcing has been expanded