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

Published by Pearson (April 16, 2019) © 2019

  • Sunil Chopra

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Equip your students with the essential practical tools to grasp and solve supply chain problems.

Supply Chain Management, 7th edition, introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. Students are guided through all the key drivers of the supply chain, learning how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage and how poorsupply chain management can damage an organization's performance.

With a range of built-in learning tools, this text is perfect for MBA, engineering masters, or senior-level undergraduate courses in supply chain management.

Hallmark features of this title.

Guide your students through the fundamentals of supply chains.
  • A strategic framework identifies the key drivers of supply chain performance,including facilities, inventory, transportation, and more.
  • Learning objectives show students what they need to take away from each chapter.
Enhance your students’ engagement and critical-thinking skills with in-text applications.
  • Students can use mini-cases, examples, and exercisesto apply the concepts and methodologies in the context of strategic decision-making for a business.
  • Every analytic methodology is illustrated with its application in Excel, and students have access to associated Excel files.

New to this edition.

Sharpen your students' critical thinking and data analytics skills through the text.
  • New cases have been added to chapters 5, 8, and 15; other cases are updated; and new examples have been added with a global focus.
  • Concepts underlying the design of distribution networks are illustrated in the context of omni-channel retailing in Chapter 4. The evolution of retailing is used throughout the book to illustrate the link between supply chain concepts and strategic decision-making in a supply chain.
  • The link between supply chain decisions and the financial performance of a firm is developed in detail in Chapter 3.
  • New exercises have been added in several chapters.
Develop your students’ ability to use Excel® in order to make better decisions.
  • For all numerical examples, the authors have created spreadsheets to help students explore the concepts through "what-if" analyses. They are available at pearsonhighered.com/chopra along with basic guidance on how they may be used.

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Introduce your students to high-level strategy and concepts while giving them the practical tools to solve supply chain problems.

Supply Chain Management, 7th edition, helps students to gain deeper understanding of supply chains with case study examples to illustrate how good supply chain management offers a competitive advantage and how the opposite can damage an organization's performance.

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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
  1. 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
  1. Linking Product Availability to Profits
  • Appendix 13A: Optimal Level of Product Availability
  • Appendix 13B: An Intermediate Evaluation
  • Appendix 13C: Expected Profit from an Order
  • Appendix13D: 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

  • A. Information Technology in a Supply Chain

Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Kellogg School of Management. He has a PhD in operations research from SUNY 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.

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