Supply chain management : strategy, planning, and operation /
Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl.
- Global 4th ed.
- Boston : Prentice Hall, c2010.
- 519 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
I. Building a strategic framework to analyze supply chains: Understanding the supply chain -- Supply chain performance: achieving strategic fit and scope -- Supply chain drivers and metrics -- II. Designing the supply chain network: Designing distribution networks and applications to e-business -- Network design in the supply chain -- Designing global supply chain networks -- III. Planning demand and supply in a supply chain: Demand forecasting in a supply chain -- Aggregate planning in a supply chain -- Sales and operations planning: planning supply and demand in a supply chain -- IV. Planning and managing inventories in a supply chain: Managing economies of scale in a supply chain; cycle inventory -- Managing uncertainty in a supply chain: safety inventory -- Determining the optimal level of product availability -- V. Designing and planning transportation networks: Transportation in a supply chain -- VI. Managing cross-functional drivers in a supply chain: Sourcing decisions in a supply chain -- Pricing and revenue management in a supply chain -- Information technology in a supply chain -- Coordination in a supply chain.
9780136094517 (pbk.) 0136094511 (pbk.)
Marketing channels--Management. Delivery of goods--Management. Physical distribution of goods--Management. Customer services--Management. Industrial procurement. Materials management.