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

Published by Pearson (January 3, 2018) © 2019

  • Sunil Chopra

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For supply chain management courses.

A strategic framework for understanding supply chain management

Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts while giving students the practical tools to solve supply chain (SC) problems. Using a strategic framework, the text covers all of the key drivers of performance, including facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing and pricing.

New cases in the 7th Edition illustrate how good SC management offers a competitive advantage and how poor SC management can damage an organization's performance. With this text, students gain a deeper understanding of SCs and how managerial levers can improve SC outcomes.

Hallmark features of this title

A fundamental framework

  • A strategic framework identifies and explains the key drivers of SC performance.
  • The evolution of retailing is used throughout the text to illustrate the link between concepts and strategic decision-making in a supply chain.

Practice with Excel

  • Every analytic methodology is illustrated with its application in Excel®. Students also have access to associated Excel files to develop their analytical skills.

New and updated features of this title

A fundamental SC framework

  • NEW: The link between SC decisions and the financial performance of a firm has been developed in detail (Ch. 3).
  • NEW: Concepts underlying the design of distribution networks are illustrated in the context of omni-channel retailing (Ch. 4).

Engaging learning tools

  • UPDATED: Mini-cases and exercises have students apply concepts and methodologies in the context of strategic decision-making for a business.
  • NEW: Examples illustrate lessons from various global events, issues and organizations.
  • NEW: Learning objectives help students understand what they need to take away from each chapter.

Practice with Excel

  • NEW: Spreadsheets for all numerical examples help students explore concepts through “what-if” analyses. They're available at pearsonhighered.com/chopra along with guidance on how to use them.

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

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 and senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching, and the co-director 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.

Chopra 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 for several firms in the area of supply chain and operations management.

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