Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, 8th edition

Published by Pearson (May 5, 2025) © 2026
Sunil Chopra

Title overview

For courses in supply chain management and logistics.

A strategic framework for supply chain decision-making

Supply Chain Management merges concepts and strategies with practical tools for solving supply chain problems. Using a strategic framework, it assesses key drivers of supply chain performance such as inventory and sourcing. Quantitative ideas are presented in spreadsheets to help students apply analytic methodologies.

The 8th Edition includes dozens of new examples and learning objectives, plus two new chapters covering supply chain segmentation, tailoring, resilience and disruption risk. For the first time ever, a MyLab for this title is available, offering a breadth of engaging learning experiences and assessment options.

Hallmark features of this title

Thorough analysis

  • A deep dive into supply chain performance reveals the role of and interactions between key drivers, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing and pricing.
  • Several mini-cases link analytic methodologies to decision-making strategies.
  • Spreadsheets for numerical examples let students explore concepts through “what if” analyses.

Examples and practice

  • EXPANDED: Real-world examples illustrate lessons learned from organizations and global events, such as stressors since the Covid-19 pandemic. Dozens of new examples were added.
  • Quantitative problems appear at the end of each chapter; many can be solved with Excel®. Worked-out solved problems offer step-by-step guidance.
  • Discussion questions at the end of each chapter deepen students’ grasp of concepts.

New and updated features of this title

Broad revisions

  • REVISED: A revised chapter organization integrates risk and technology topics throughout the text.
  • EXPANDED: New learning objectives were added throughout. Each section of each chapter is associated with a learning objective, which is then revisited at the end of the section.

New and updated chapters

  • NEW: Two new chapters were added, including a new Chapter 18 (on segmentation and tailoring of supply chains) and a new Chapter 19 (on supply chain resilience and disruption risk).
  • UPDATED: Significant chapter updates were made to Chapter 15 (on information technology) and to Chapter 17 (on sustainability).

New learning features

  • NEW: A new glossary and key terms outlined in the text make the content more accessible and help students focus on key concepts.
  • EXPANDED: New exercises were added to several chapters.

Key features

ALL-NEW MYLAB! Features of MyLab Operations Management for the 8th Edition

  • Pre-built courses and assignments offer interactive course-specific content, by expert authors, that you can tailor to the goals of your course.
  • AI-powered study tool draws on Pearson content to turn homework mistakes into teachable moments.
  • Dynamic Study Modules pose a handful of questions and then respond to each student’s progress in real time. Learners deepen their grasp of concepts as they go.
  • Mini Sims put students in professional roles and ask them to respond to real business challenges. Also, OM Sims integrate OM concepts and Excel ® Sims offer practice in an Excel environment. 
  • The Case Study Library offers brief, assignable case studies based on real-world business scenarios (both text and video cases). Case study assignments include case-related writing prompts as well as auto-graded multiple-choice assessment questions.
  • Auto-graded Excel Projects use proven, field-tested technology to help students build key skills in Excel. You can seamlessly integrate Excel content into your course without having to manually grade spreadsheets.

Features of Pearson+ eTextbook for the 8th Edition

  • NEW: In the News boxes at the start of each chapter highlight current events applications of supply chain principles. Regular updates flow automatically, keeping the content as current as possible.
  • NEW: Interactive graphs now enable learners to manipulate parameters of supply chain issues and decisions, providing insight not otherwise available.
  • NEW: Interactive elements were added, including new image galleries and a new “Show/Hide” feature within examples that reveals solutions.

Table of contents

PART I: BUILDING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE SUPPLY CHAIN

  1. Understanding the Supply Chain
  2. Achieving Strategic Fit in a Supply Chain
  3. Supply Chain Drivers and Financial Performance

PART II: DESIGNING THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK

  1. Network Design in the Supply Chain
  2. Building and Evaluating Optionality in Global Supply Chain Networks

PART III: PLANNING AND COORDINATING DEMAND AND SUPPLY IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

  1. Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
  2. Planning Supply in a Supply Chain: Aggregate Planning
  3. Sales and Operations Planning in a Supply Chain
  4. Coordination in a Supply Chain

PART IV: PLANNING AND MANAGING INVENTORIES IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

  1. Managing Economies of Scale in a Supply Chain: Cycle Inventory
  2. Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
  3. Growing Supply Chain Profits Using Product Availability

PART V: DESIGNING AND PLANNING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS

  1. Transportation in a Supply Chain

PART VI: MANAGING CROSS-FUNCTIONAL DRIVERS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN

  1. Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
  2. Information Technology in a Supply Chain
  3. Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain
  4. Sustainability and the Supply Chain
  5. Segmentation and Tailoring of Supply Chains
  6. Building Resilience to Disruption in Supply Chains

Author bios

About our author

Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Kellogg School of Management. He has served as the interim dean, deputy dean and senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching, and the codirector of the MMM program, a joint dual-degree program between the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He has a PhD in operations research from SUNY at Stony Brook. Prior to joining Kellogg, he taught at New York University and spent a year at IBM Research.

Professor Chopra’s research and teaching interests are in supply chain and logistics management, operations management, combinatorial optimization and the design of telecommunication networks. He has won several teaching awards at the MBA and Executive programs of Kellogg. He has authored more than 50 papers and two books.

He has been a department editor for Management Science and an associate editor for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research and Decision Sciences Journal. He has also consulted several firms in supply chain and operations management.

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