Principles of Supply Chain Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

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Introduction

This is a book about supply chain development and management. Supply chains are made

up of a complex variety of businesses and support organizations. In this book, we first

describe the component parts and then explain how they are put together to make an

integrated entity—the supply chain—that provides products and services the consumer

wants, effectively and efciently.

We have added a new chapter (Chapter 9) to include a more comprehensive coverage of

logistics. As supply chains become more complex and dispersed around the world, the

movement of goods (logistics) becomes more important, even critical. As we point out,

logist ...