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Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, 7th edition

  • Sunil Chopra

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Overview

Supply Chain Management blends concepts and strategy with practical tools to help you solve supply chain problems. You'll explore the key drivers, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing and the managerial levers that can improve supply chain performance.

Published by Pearson (July 14th 2021) - Copyright © 2019

ISBN-13: 9780137502844

Subject: Operations Management

Category: Supply Chain

Table of contents

Table of Contents

PART I: BUILDING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE SUPPLY CHAINS

  1. Understanding the Supply Chain
  2. Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit and Scope
  3. Supply Chain Drivers and Metrics

PART II: DESIGNING THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK

  1. Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to Online Sales
  2. Network Design in the Supply Chain
  3. Designing Global Supply Chain Networks

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

  1. Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
  2. Aggregate Planning in a Supply Chain
  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
    • Appendix 11A: Economic Order Quantity
  2. Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
    • Appendix 12A: The Normal
    • Appendix 12B: The Normal Distribution in Excel
    • Appendix 12C: Expected Shortage per Replenishment Cycle
    • Appendix 12D: Evaluating Safety Inventory for Slow-Moving Items
  3. Linking Product Availability to Profits
    • Appendix 13A: Optimal Level of Product Availability
    • Appendix 13B: An Intermediate Evaluation
    • Appendix 13C: Expected Profit from an Order
    • Appendix 13D: Expected Overstock from an Order
    • Appendix 13E: Expected Understock from an Order
    • Appendix 13F: Simulation Using Spreadsheets

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. Pricing and Revenue Management in a Supply Chain
  3. Sustainability and the Supply Chain

PART VII: ONLINE CHAPTER

  1. Information Technology in a Supply Chain

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