Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Why Supply Chain Management
1.2 Defining supply chains
1.2 Customer Orientation
1.3 Defining Supply Chain Management
1.3 Development Trends
2 Global Supply Chain Operations
2.1 Global Business Environment
2.2 Strategic Challenges
2.3 How Global Supply Chains Responded
2.4 Current Trends in Global SCM
3 Supply Chain Design and Planning
3.1 Supply Chain Configuration
3.2 Extent of Vertical Integration
3.3 Outsourcing and Otfshoring
3.3 Location Decisions
3.4 Capacity Planning
3.5 Bullwhip Effect
4 Lean Supply Management
4.1 Origins of the Lean Manufacturing
4.2 Lean Supply Principles
4.3 Focusing on Cost-to-Serve
4.4 Drivers for Lean Supply Chain
4.5 Lean Process Mapping Tools
5 Agile Supply Management
5.1 The Need for Agility
5.2 Agile Supply Chain Concept
5.3 Agile Supply Chain Framework
5.4 Competing on Responsiveness
5.5 Getting It Right from Within.