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1. Introduction to supply chain management
Introduction
1.1 What is supply chain management?
1.1.1 Supply chain management: The concept
1.1.2 Supply chain management: Evolution
1.1.3 Supply chain management: The search for a definition
1.1.4 Supply chain management: The drivers:
1.2 Technology and supply chain management
1.3 Supply chain management: New business models and challenges
1.3.1 New supply chain business models
1.3.2 Challenges
1.4 Key issues in supply chain management
2. Supply chain management and information systems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Goals of supply chain IT systems
2.3 Supply chain IT goals: Challenges and means
2.3.1 Standardisation
2.3.2 Infrastructure
2.3.3 Electronic commerce
2.3.4 Supply chain management issues and IT
2.4 Integrating the supply chain information systems
2.5 Decision support systems
2.5.1 The characteristics of decision support systems
2.5.2 DSS components
2.5.3 DSS in supply chain management
2.6 Summary
3. Logistic network configuration
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The supply chain network
3.2.1 Network design decisions
3.2.2 Design consideration
3.3 Logistics and facility costs in logistics network configuration
3.4 Logistics network design and decision support systems
3.4.1 The supply chain model
3.4.2 Data and a network model
3.4.3 Model and data validation
3.4.4 Solution techniques
3.5 Key features of a network configuration DSS
4. Inventory management and risk pooling
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Inventory: Basic concepts
4.2.1 Why hold inventory: Inventory functionality
4.2.2 Inventory related definitions
4.2.3 Inventory related issues
4.3 The inventory policy
4.3.1 Basic inventory decisions and EOQ
4.3.2 Inventory policy under conditions of uncertainty
4.4 Risk pooling
4.4.1 The Square Root Law of Inventory
4.4.2 Centralised versus the decentralised system
4.4.3 Supply chain inventory
4.4.4 Inventory management: Practical issues
4.5 Summary
5. Supply chain integration: The value of information
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Information and supply chain integration
5.2.1 The bullwhip effect
5.2.2 The reasons for bullwhip effect
5.2.3 Quantifying the bullwhip effect
5.2.4 Measuring bullwhip effect: The practical issues
5.2.5 Bullwhip effect: Managerial insight
5.2.6 Reducing bullwhip effects
5.3 Effective forecasts and supply chain integration
5.4 Collaborative supply chains and information integration
5.5 Supply chain systems and information integration
5.6 Information and the synchronised supply chain
5.7 Summary
6. Supply chain integration: Distribution strategies
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Transportation and distribution
6.2.1 Transport modes
6.2.2 Inbound transportation
6.2.3 Distribution
6.3 Centralised versus decentralised control
6.4 Distribution strategies
6.4.1 Direct shipment
6.4.2 Cross docking
6.4.3 Warehousing and distribution strategies
6.4.4 Transhipment
6.5 Central versus local facilities
6.6 Push versus pull systems
6.6.1 Push systems
6.6.2 Pull systems
6.7 Summary
7. Supply chain simulation games:
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Beer Game
7.2.1 The purpose
7.2.2 The Beer Game scenario
7.2.3 Features and options
7.3 Playing the Beer Game
7.3.1 Beer Game projects
7.3.2 The Beer Game: The learning tool
7.4 The Risk Pooling Game
7.4.1 Playing the Risk Pooling Game
7.4.2 Risk pooling project
7.5 Summary
8. Supply chain integration: Strategic partnering
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Strategic partnering
8.2.1 Strategic partnering: A framework
8.3 Supply chain partnership models
8.3.1 Manufacturer and supplier partnership
8.3.2 Strategic partnering with logistics service providers
8.3.3 RSP or retailer supplier partnership
4.3.4 Distributor integration
8.4 Summary
9. International issues in supply chain management
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Globalisation and SCM issues
9.2.1 Global business forces
9.3 International supp ly chain - risks and advantages
9.3.1 Risks in international supply chain
9.3.2 Risk management strategies
9.3.3 Risk management framework
9.4 Issues in intern ational supply chain management
9.5 Logistics infrastructure: Regional issues
9.6 Summary
10. Product design and supply chains
10.1 Introduction
10.1.1 Matching the supply chain to the product
10.2 Design for logistics
10.2.1 Packaging
10.2.2 Manufacturing: Concurrent and parallel processing
10.2.3 Postponement or delayed differentiation
10.3 Mass customisation and supply chains
10.4 Supply chain is sues and the push-pull boundary
10.5 Summary
11. Supply chain management and customer value
11.1 Introduction
11.1.1 The concept of value
11.1.2 Customer service and value
11.2 Supply chain management and customer value
11.2.1 Tailored logistics
11.2.2 Customer value dimensions
11.3 Customer value measures
11.3.1 Customer based measures
11.3.2 Supply chain performance measures
11.4 Information technology and customer value
11.5 Summary
1.1 What is supply chain management?
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