Preface; 1 Globalization global markets and global supply strategies; 2 Strategic concepts and the customer focused market driven supply chain; 3 The emergence of supply chain management and supply chain strategy as a critical success factor for organizations; 4 Market driven and customer focused supply chain strategies; 5 Supplier sourcing procurement and evaluation; 6 Supply chain structures and relationships; 7 Supply chain integration and e business strategies; 8 Strategic supply chain cost value and measurement; 9 Inventory management.
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"Supply Chain Strategies: Customer Driven and Customer Focused" highlights the main challenges facing organizations wanting to select, design and implement successful supply chain strategies in an increasingly global and competitive environment. The text features discussion questions at the end of each chapter to promote learning, and numerous industry examples to illustrate key concepts within chapters. Each chapter discusses the issues in relation to previous literature, contemporary practices and the lesson to be learned from different industries where successful management of supply chains has improved organizational and industry level profitability. This text includes a number of industry examples, thereby giving a wide-ranging approach to the topic. It provides an original, market-driven approach to supply chain strategy. -- Publisher description.
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Offers a completely new approach to the study of organizational supply chains.