TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chopra,Sunil
AU  - Meindl,Peter
TI  - Supply chain management: strategy, planning, and operation 
SN  - 9780136094517 (pbk.)
AV  - HF5415.13 .C533 2010
U1  - 658.7 CHO 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - Marketing channels
KW  - Management
KW  - Delivery of goods
KW  - Physical distribution of goods
KW  - Customer services
KW  - Industrial procurement
KW  - Materials management
N1  - 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
ER  -