Book description
This book present emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Lebanon, Turkey, Israel, and Hungary. It takes a results-oriented, comparative approach to supply chain management covering structural, strategic, and operational topics. Providing insights for assessing performance and hedging risk, this is a handbook that no competitive supply chain executive can afford to ignore.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Editors
- Contributors
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PART I SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY ON THE SILK ROAD
- 1 Silk Road Supply Chains: A Historical Perspective
- 2 The Silk Road Linking Artisans in India to Designers in Italy and World Markets
- 3 Logistics Management Insights from the Silk Road Geography
- 4 Formal and Informal Financial Institutions and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Bazaars and Microfinance in Central Asia
- 5 Israel: A Start-Up Nation in a Global Supply Chain Context: The Revival of a Virtual Silk Road
- 6 Decoding Supply Chain Leadership in India
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PART II SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE ON THE SILK ROAD
- 7 Borusan Lojistik: Winning in the 3PL Market
- 8 Cross-Docking Insights from a Third-Party Logistics Firm in Turkey
- 9 Balance of Power between Buyer and Supplier: The Case of Chinese and Western Companies
- 10 Outsourcing Design to Asia: ODM Practices
- 11 Milk Collection at Nestle Pakistan Ltd.
- 12 Role of Hungarian Railway on the New Silk Road
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PART III SUPPLY CHAIN RISK ON THE SILK ROAD
- 13 Private–Humanitarian Supply Chain Partnerships on the Silk Road
- 14 Incorporating Harvest, Maturity, Yield, and Demand Risk in Planning for Agricultural Supply Chains for Premium Products
- 15 Managing Procurement Risks in Turkish Machinery Industry: The Case of Renkler Makina
- 16 Supply Chain Risk and Sourcing Strategies: Automotive Industry in Iran
- Index
Product information
- Title: Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2011
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781439867259
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