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

Published by Pearson (April 22, 2025) © 2026

  • Sunil Chopra
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Supply Chain Management merges concepts and strategies with practical tools for solving supply chain problems. Using a strategic decision-making framework, it assesses key drivers of supply chain performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing and pricing. Quantitative ideas are presented in Excel® spreadsheets to help you understand and apply analytic methodologies.

The 8th Edition includes dozens of new real-world examples illustrating lessons learned from organizations and global events, such as stressors and trends since the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, two new chapters were added, expanding coverage of supply chain segmentation, tailoring, resilience and disruption risk.

PART I: BUILDING A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE SUPPLY CHAINS

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

PART II: DESIGNING THE SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK

  1. Designing Distribution Networks and Applications to Omni-Channel Retailing
  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
  2. Managing Uncertainty in a Supply Chain Safety Inventory
  3. Linking Product Availability to Profits

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

  • A. Information Technology in a Supply Chain

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