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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Fourth Edition,Sunil Chopra

Peter Meindl, Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl

An authoritative guide to designing, planning, and operating supply chains to achieve strategic fit and maximize profitability by mastering the six key logistical and cross-functional drivers of performance.

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What it’s about

This comprehensive textbook provides a strategic framework for analyzing and managing supply chains to create a powerful competitive advantage. Moving beyond basic logistics, it dissects supply chain performance into six key drivers—facilities, inventory, transportation, information, sourcing, and pricing—and demonstrates how to configure them to achieve 'strategic fit' between a company's competitive goals and its supply chain capabilities. The book covers the full spectrum of supply chain activities from strategy and network design to demand planning, inventory management, and operational coordination. With numerous global examples, case studies, and analytical methodologies illustrated in Excel, it equips students and practitioners with the conceptual understanding and quantitative tools necessary to build responsive, efficient, and profitable supply chains in a complex and uncertain global market.

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Who it’s for
A student, manager, or practitioner in operations or supply chain management who wants to design and run a supply chain that drives profitability and creates a sustainable competitive advantage.
The problem
Their company's supply chain is either too expensive, too slow, or misaligned with strategic goals, resulting in excess inventory, stockouts, high costs, and dissatisfied customers. They feel frustrated by the complexity of supply chain trade-offs, overwhelmed by conflicting priorities across functions, and uncertain about how to make the right design, planning, and operational decisions in a volatile global market.
The plan
  1. Build a strategic framework by aligning your supply chain strategy with your competitive strategy (Strategic Fit).
  2. Learn to design and manage the six key drivers of supply chain performance: Facilities, Inventory, Transportation, Information, Sourcing, and Pricing.
  3. Apply analytical models for forecasting, planning, and optimization to make data-driven decisions that maximize profitability.
The payoff
You will be able to design and manage a responsive and efficient supply chain that is perfectly aligned with company strategy. · You will make confident, data-driven decisions that lower costs, improve service levels, and boost overall supply chain profitability. · Your supply chain will become a powerful source of competitive advantage.

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