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About our author Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Kellogg School of Management. He has served as the interim dean, deputy dean and senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching, and the codirector of the MMM program, a joint dual-degree program between the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He has a PhD in operations research from SUNY at Stony Brook. Prior to joining Kellogg, he taught at New York University and spent a year at IBM Research.

Professor Chopras research and teaching interests are in supply chain and logistics management, operations management, combinatorial optimization and the design of telecommunication networks. He has won several teaching awards at the MBA and Executive programs of Kellogg. He has authored more than 50 papers and two books.

He has been a department editor for Management Science and an associate editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management , Operations Research and Decision Sciences Journal . He has also consulted several firms in supply chain and operations management.

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PART I: BUILDING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE SUPPLY CHAIN

1. Understanding the Supply Chain

2. Achieving Strategic Fit in a Supply Chain

3. Supply Chain Drivers and Financial Performance PART II: DESIGNING THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK

4. Network Design in the Supply Chain

5. Building and Evaluating Optionality in Global Supply Chain Networks PART III: PLANNING AND COORDINATING DEMAND AND SUPPLY IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

6. Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain

7. Planning Supply in a Supply Chain: Aggregate Planning

8. Sales and Operations Planning in a Supply Chain

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

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

11. Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory

12. Growing Supply Chain Profits Using Product Availability PART V: DESIGNING AND PLANNING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS

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

14. Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain

15. Information Technology in a Supply Chain

16. Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain

17. Sustainability and the Supply Chain

18. Segmentation and Tailoring of Supply Chains

19. Building Resilience to Disruption in Supply Chains