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Introduction to Supply Chain Management: Enhancing Competitiveness and Customer Value

Supply Chain

ISBN #978-1-952023-26-2

Introduction to Supply Chain Management: Enhancing Competitiveness and Customer Value

Stanley Fawcett, PhD
Lisa Ellram, PhD
Wendy Tate, PhD
Thomas Goldsby, PhD
Christian Hofer, PhD
Tobias Schoenherr, PhD
Ednilson Bernardes, PhD
Brian Fugate, PhD

Supply chain management integrates value creation across purchasing, operations, and logistics to improve organizational performance, meet customer needs, and achieve a competitive advantage. This resource will help your students not just gain a balanced and holistic understanding of value-creation processes but also begin to learn how to make value-added decisions.

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Supply chain management enhances organizational performance and competitive advantage by integrating value creation across purchasing, operations, and logistics, and this resource guides students in making value-added decisions.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Supply Chain Management
Chapter 2: Meeting Customers’ Needs
Chapter 3: Global Supply Chain Management
Chapter 4: Introduction to Purchasing
Chapter 5: Supplier Selection
Chapter 6: Supplier Development and Integration
Chapter 7: Strategic Cost Management
Chapter 8: Process Design and Improvement
Chapter 9: Lean Operations
Chapter 10: Quality
Chapter 11: Inventory
Chapter 12: Introduction to Logistics
Chapter 13: Forecasting and Integrated Business Planning
Chapter 14: Transportation
Chapter 15: Warehousing
Chapter 16: Sustainability and Life Cycle Management
Chapter 17: Performance Measurement
Chapter 18: Information Technology
Chapter 19: Risk Management
Chapter 20: The Future of Supply Chain Management

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