About the book

The revised seventh edition of Supply Chain Management provides an understanding of the constantly evolving theory of supply chain management and the practical experiences of businesses in the developed world while covering the ground realities in one of the world's fastest-growing economies, India, to produce a text with lessons for both practitioners and students of the subject across the globe. The text introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems.

Contents:

Part I: Building A Strategic Framework to Analyze Supply Chains

1. Understanding The Supply Chain

2. Achieving Strategic Fit in A Supply Chain

3. Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics

Part II: Designing the Supply Chain Network

4. Designing Distribution Networks and Applications To Omni-Channel Retailing  

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

12. Managing Uncertainty in A Supply Chain Safety Inventory

13. Linking Product Availability to Profits

Part V: Designing and Planning Transportation Networks  

14. Transportation In a Supply Chain

Part VI: Managing Cross-Functional Drivers in A Supply Chain  

15. Sourcing Decisions in A Supply Chain

16. Pricing And Revenue Management in A Supply Chain

17. Sustainability And the Supply Chain

Part VII: Online Chapter

Chapter A Information Technology In A Supply Chain