For MBA, engineering master, or senior-level undergraduate courses in supply chain management.

Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. Using a strategic framework, students are guided through all of the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing. The 7th Edition, Global Edition, weaves in compelling case study examples to illustrate how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage and how poor supply chain management can damage an organisation's performance. With this text, students gain a deeper understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp on the practical managerial levers that can improve supply chain performance.

Gain the practical tools to solve supply chain problems. Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operation , 7th edition, Global Edition, by Sunil Chopra, introduces you to high-level strategy and concepts. A strategic framework guides you through all the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing. The 7th edition embeds compelling case study examples to illustrate how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage and how poor supply chain management can damage an organisation's performance. With this text, you can gain a deeper understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp of the practical managerial levers that can improve supply chain performance.

With a range of in-text features and essential learning tools, this text is perfect for MBA, engineering masters, or senior-level undergraduate courses in supply chain management.

Autorentext

Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Kellogg School of Management. He has a PhD in operations research from SUNY IBM Research. Professor Chopra's research and teaching interests are in supply chain and logistics management, operations management, combinatorial optimization, and the design of telecommunication networks.

Zusammenfassung

Gain the practical tools to solve supply chain problems.

Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning and Operation, 7th edition, Global Edition, by Sunil Chopra, introduces you to high-level strategy and concepts. A strategic framework guides you through all the key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing. The 7th edition embeds compelling case study examples to illustrate how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage and how poor supply chain management can damage an organisation's performance. With this text, you can gain a deeper understanding of supply chains and a firm grasp of the practical managerial levers that can improve supply chain performance.

With a range of in-text features and essential learning tools, this text is perfect for MBA, engineering masters, or senior-level undergraduate courses in supply chain management.

Inhalt
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

4. Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to Online Sales
5. Network Design in the Supply Chain

6. Designing Global Supply Chain Networks PART III: PLANNING AND COORDINATING DEMAND AND SUPPLY IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

7. Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
8. Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain
9. Sales and Operations Planning in a Supply Chain

10. Coordination in a Supply Chain PART IV: PLANNING AND MANAGING INVENTORIES IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

11. Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory

• Appendix 11A: Economic Order Quantity

1. 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

1. Linking Product Availability to Profits

• Appendix 13A: Optimal Level of Product Availability
• Appendix 13B: An Intermediate Evaluation
• Appendix 13C: Expected Profit from an Order
• Appendix13D: Expected Overstock from an Order
• Appendix 13E: Expected Understock from an Order
• Appendix 13F: Simulation Using Spreadsheets PART V: DESIGNING AND PLANNING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS

1. Transportation in a Supply Chain PART VI: MANAGING CROSS FUNCTIONAL DRIVERS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

2. Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
3. Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain
4. Sustainability and the Supply Chain PART VII: ONLINE CHAPTER

• A. Information Technology in a Supply Chain