Supply Chain Management. Strategy, Planning, and Operation
7th edition

The seventh edition of Supply Chain Management introduces high-level strategy and concepts and helps students develop problem-solving skills by providing the practical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. With compelling examples of organizations and their services - Amazon's AmazonFresh and Google's Google Express - the text illustrates some of the key drivers of supply chain management, like creating a framework for distribution networks, pushing students to think about how retailing may evolve in the future with changes in consumer preferences and technology.
Features : brand new spreadsheets for all numerical example that help students explore the concepts through "what-if" analyses ; new and updated learning objectives that help students understand what they need to take away from each chapter and section ; new and updated mini-cases, examples, and exercises that help students apply the concepts and methodologies of strategic decision-making for a business ; Over 200 end-of-chapter discussion questions and exercises that build critical-thinking skills, with more than 30% revised from the previous edition ; step-by-step directions that lead students to a problem's solution ; Excel files that illustrate every analytic methodology with its application.