Designing &amp; Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies &amp; Case Studies (Book &amp; CD-Rom)
A Book for Students Everywhere Very few books on supply chain management succeed as both an instructional vehicle for the student and a hands-on resource for the practitioner. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain is the happy exception. This collaboration between academia and the industry bridges that gap between the pedantic and the pragmatic. Each chapter presents a case study up front, replete with problems and challenges, then discusses the technology and decision-support tools that can be applied to the case example. By the end of the chapter, the students can address the issues raised in the cases effectively. That technique is repeated for a number of critical supply chain topics- logistics network design, inventory management, strategic alliances, international logistics, and the often overlooked supply chain/product design connection, to name a few. Especially valuable for readers without a strong technical background is the discussion on supply chain information technology and decision-support systems. --Supply Chain Management Review, March/April 2000Each chapter begins with a real-world case-study, then presents various technological-solutions...this book is essential for professionals and students alike. --Business 2.0 December 2001The book is an important contribution and major milestone for the supply chain community.  It is the first book that covers a comprehensive breadth of supply chain topics in depth and addresses the major challenges in this area. --Hau Lee, Stanford UniversityThe book was awarded:1) The IIE Joint Publishers Book of the Year2) The Outstanding IIE Publication Award --Institute of Industrial Engineers,  Year 2000 awardsWinner of the Outstanding First Edition of the Year Award  given in 2000 by McGraw-Hill/Irwin  --McGraw-Hill/Irwin--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.