Supply Chain Strategies : Demand Driven and Customer Focused, 2nd Edition

Supply Chain Strategies demonstrates how organizations must take strategic decisions in order to manage their supply chains to sustain competitiveness in the global economy.

Whereas many textbooks on supply chain management focus on purchasing and operations, this new edition of Tony Hines' text focuses upon the direction-setting and efficient resource-allocation that organizations need to provide in order to satisfy their customers. Overcoming tensions between political, economic, technological, ethical and environmental considerations is shown to be vital to ensure a sensible strategy for managing the supply chain.

This impressive text makes the most of integrated case studies to show how strategic thinking and supply chain management play out in the real world. As such, the book is ideal for courses on supply chain management - especially those which require a strategic element.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
How to Use This Book

Chapter 1 : Globalization : Global Demand and Supply Strategies
Chapter 2 : Strategic Concepts and the Customer Focused, Market-Driven Supply Chain
Chapter 3 : The Emergence of Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Strategy as a Critical Success Factor for Organizations
Chapter 4 : Market-Driven and Customer-Focused Supply Chain Strategies
Chapter 5 : Supplier Sourcing, Procurement and Evaluation
Chapter 6 : Supply Chain Structures and Relationships
Chapter 7 : Supply Chain Integration, Technology and e-Business Strategies
Chapter 8 : Strategic Supply Chain Cost, Value and Measurement
Chapter 9 : Service Levels, Synchronization of Business Processes and Inventories
Chapter 10 : Supply Chain Profitability, Quality and World-Class Organizations
Chapter 11 : Logistics and Fulfilment Strategies
Chapter 12 : The Supply Chain Challenges
Chapter 13 : Afterword

Glossary of Supply Chain Terms
Index

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