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Supply chain management demystified /
Covers supply chain collaboration, planning, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, production, logistics, risk management, and performance metrics. Corporate social responsibility is also addressed. Detailed examples and concise explanations make it easy to understand the material, and end-of-chapter q...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2014]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A. About the author
- B. Preface
- C. Acknowledgments
- 1. Chapter 1: basic supply chain management concepts
- Supply chain and supply chain management
- Supply chain networks
- Demand chains and value chains
- Service supply chains
- The importance of supply chain management
- Summary
- Quiz
- 2. Chapter 2: supply chain collaboration
- What is collaboration?
- Supply chain members
- Marketing
- Supply management
- Supply chain collaboration
- External collaboration
- Factors that influence collaboration
- Summary
- Quiz
- 3. Chapter 3: supply chain strategies and planning
- Levels of decision making
- Decision-making tools and techniques
- Supply chain strategy
- Issues of strategic importance
- Sustaining a competitive advantage
- Strategic sourcing
- Analysis of organizational spending
- Develop strategies for each category
- Characteristics of integrated supply management
- Summary
- Quiz
- 4. Chapter 4: sourcing and supply management
- Supplier management
- Negotiation and contracting
- Cost control
- Innovation and new product development
- Summary
- Quiz
- 5. Chapter 5: manufacturing and production
- Understanding basic manufacturing techniques
- Manufacturers and producers
- Manufacturing and production methods
- Types of operations
- Techniques for process improvement
- Design for supply chain management
- Summary
- Quiz
- 6. Chapter 6: logistics
- The basic function of logistics
- Considerations for logistics strategy
- Primary logistics activities
- Reverse logistics
- Summary
- Quiz
- 7. Chapter 7: supply chain risks
- Necessity for risk management
- Risk defined
- Supply chain risk management process
- Steps in a supply chain risk management process
- Identify sources of risk
- Assess and categorize risks
- Components of supply chain risk management
- Implement and monitor
- Examples of supply chain events and consequences
- Summary
- Quiz
- 8. Chapter 8: supply chain performance metrics
- The importance of performance metrics
- Measures, metrics, and kpis
- Performance targets
- Characteristics of a good metric
- Supplier performance metrics
- Supply chain performance metrics
- Essential characteristics of supply chain metrics
- Take action
- Impediments to integrated supply chain metrics
- Technology as a facilitator
- Enhancing the value of supply chain performance metrics
- Summary
- Quiz
- 9. Chapter 9: corporate social responsibility
- Csr background
- Sustainability
- Primary csr obligations
- Perspectives for and against csr
- Customers and csr
- Csr in supply chain management
- Summary
- Quiz
- 10. Chapter 10: the future of supply chain management
- Rethinking supply chain management
- Globalization
- The transformation of supply management
- Past perspectives on challenges ahead
- Perspectives on the future of scm
- Opportunities for the future
- Quiz
- A. Final exam
- B. Answers to quizzes and final exam
- C. Appendix: additional case studies
- Chapter 3 additional case studies
- Chapter 4 additional case studies
- Chapter 6 additional case study
- Chapter 8 additional case study
- D. Suggested additional reading and information resources
- Textbooks
- Professional trade books
- Internet information resources.