Supply Chain Management 5th Edition by Sunil Chopra and Meindl

Supply Chain Management 5th Edition by Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl reveals the key drivers of excellent supply chain management so as to help readers perceive what creates a aggressive advantage. The edition continues to extend the concentrate on global supply chain.

As a way to assist college students see how all the items of the availability chain fit together, the strategic framework in this text identifies amenities, inventory, transportation, data, sourcing, and pricing as the important thing drivers of provide chain performance. General, the aim is to convey how these drivers could also be used on a conceptual and practical degree during supply chain design, planning, and operation to improve performance.

This edition consists of a number of new mini-instances all through the text. New circumstances appear in Chapters 3, 5, 6, 12, and 14. This edition features an enhanced Chapter 6 that focuses on designing global supply chains, including an in depth instance in Section 6.6 that appears at the onshoring/offshoring choice as a real possibility within the context of uncertainty. A new mini-case has additionally been included in Chapter 6 that takes look at the onshoring/offshoring decision.

This text affords on-line spreadsheets that students can use to know the idea for the numerical examples mentioned in the chapters. These spreadsheets present the main points of the example discussed but are also dwell and allow students to strive completely different what-if analyses. To assist college students see how the provision chain will be made more sustainable this edition features the brand new Chapter 18, which focuses on sustainability and the availability chain.

Book Details

Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (February 5, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0132743957

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