Guide to Supply Chain Management: An End to End Perspective

Description

This essential guide brings supply chain theory to life. Intended for readers with a business interest in supply chain management, the book covers the key topics in eleven chapters, including planning, sourcing, making, delivering and returning, as well as strategy, people, finance, customer service and outsourcing. Each chapter starts with a brief summary and learning objectives that guide the reader through the text. This second edition also explores digital, sustainability and innovation impacts on today’s global supply chains. The book is written in a clear and simple way, featuring a variety of figures, tables and recommendations for further reading. The respective chapters conclude with real-life case studies from different companies, illustrating best practices. In the course of their work, the authors have met professionals all over the world who are passionate about their business achievements. By including their vivid examples, the guide brings theory to life, enabling readers to understand and embrace the concepts and ideas presented. Colin Scott, Henriette Lundgren and Paul Thompson are experts in supply chain management and have worked with practitioners in businesses across the globe. Endorsement: This guide is a really useful reminder of what good practice is and how it should be applied within supply chain management. The book is relevant for students of supply chain management and professional practitioners alike. This book offers an invaluable guide to understanding the specific dynamics of your supply chain and the fundamentals underpinning it. It provides the framework for delivering a supply chain strategy based upon recognised best practice. Martin McCourt, CEO, Dyson Limited .

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  Guide to Supply Chain Management

  • 2014-10-04
  • - pages
  • Paperback
  • Springer
• 

  Guide to Supply Chain Management

  • 2011-03-26
  • 189 pages
  • Paperback
  • Springer
• 

  Guide to Supply Chain Management

  • 2014-02-25
  • 211 pages
  • Ebook
  • The Economist
• 

  Guide to Supply Chain Management

  • 2011-03-23
  • 203 pages
  • Paperback
  • Springer Science & Business Media

Similar books

• 

  Managing the Supply Chain: The Definitive Guide for the Business Professional

  By David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky, Edith Simchi-Levi

  This results-based book examines the experiences of today's most accomplished companies to demonstrate supply-chain innovation at work in the marketplace.

• 

  The Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement: Principles and Strategies for Establishing Efficient, Effective, and Sustainable Supply Management Operations

  By Wendy Tate, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

  An authoritative guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing supply management and procurement processes, this book brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for all relevant processes, strategies ...

• 

  A Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity

  By Betty A. Kildow

  Kildow’s book identifies the different phases of business continuity program development and maintenance, including: • Recognizing and mitigating potential threats, risks, and hazards • Evaluating and selecting suppliers, contractors, ...

• 

  Supply Chain Management For Dummies

  By Daniel Stanton

  Effectively managing all the connected pieces of a supply chain is essential. This book helps you see your business as a unified system where all the elements need to be aligned for success.

• 

  The Definitive Guide to Inventory Management: Principles and Strategies for the Efficient Flow of Inventory Across the Supply Chain

  By CSCMP, Matthew A. Waller, Terry L. Esper

  Authored by world-class experts in collaboration with the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this text gives students and practitioners a thorough understanding of each leading approach to managing supply chain ...

• 

  Guide to Supply Chain Compliance Laws and Regulations

  By Travis James Miller

  Guide to Supply Chain Compliance Laws and Regulations

• 

  Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: An Essential Guide for 21st Century Managers

  By Kenneth B. Ackerman

  Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: An Essential Guide for 21st Century Managers

• 

  Financing the End-to-End Supply Chain: A Reference Guide to Supply Chain Finance

  By Simon Templar, Charles Findlay, Erik Hofmann

  ... Luca Gelsomino and Ronald de Boer (The Netherlands), Frederico FA Caniato and Antonella Moretto (Italy), Viktor Elliot (Sweden), Michael Henke and Axel T Schulte (Germany), Hervé Hillion (France) and Robert Alard (Switzerland).

• 

  The Definitive Guide to Supply Chain Best Practices: Comprehensive Lessons and Cases in Effective SCM

  By Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Robert M. Frankel

  Comprehensive Lessons and Cases in Effective SCM Robert M. Frankel, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ... ABOUT THE EDITOR Robert Frankel, Ph.D., is the Richard deRaismes. xii THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO SUPPLY CHAIN BEST ...

• 

  Supply Chain Management: A Guide to Best Practice

  By Andrew Cox

  This is because much of the value offered by companies to their customers is generated externally by the company's suppliers.