Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle: Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making

Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle: Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making

by Marc J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand
Released November 2012
Publisher(s): Pearson
ISBN: 9780132963916

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Book description

Optimize supply chains throughout their entire lifecycle: creation, growth, maturity, and decline! Reflecting up-to-the-minute "in-the-trenches" experience and pioneering research, this book illuminates the complex transformational processes associated with managing complex supply chains that incorporate multiple products and services within ever-changing networks. Marc J. Schniederjans and Stephen B. Legrand walk you through: starting, creating, and building new supply chains; then, realigning those supply chains for growth, adjusting to dynamic change, readjusting networks, building flexibility, and managing new supply chain risks. Next, they offer practical, realistic guidance for realigning "mature" supply chains, innovating, controlling costs; and smoothly managing declining demand. Throughout, they offer invaluable insights and tools for negotiating, measuring performance, anticipating change, improving agility and flexibility, meeting commitments to social responsibility and the law; and much more. Based on the authors' up-to-the minute supply chain experience and pioneering academic research, Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle contains many real-world examples and interviews with executives from some of the world’s top organizations. It integrates content related to key certifications and offers valuable material that can be incorporated directly into existing supply chain practices, procedures, and policies.  

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents at a Glance
  4. Contents
  5. About the Authors
  6. Preface
  7. 1. Developing Supply Chain Strategies
    1. Terms
    2. 1.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 1.2. Supply Chain Strategic Planning
    4. 1.3. Critical Success Factors in Developing a Supply Chain Strategy
    5. 1.4. Supply Chain Strategies
    6. 1.5. A Procedure for Supply Chain Strategy Development
    7. 1.6. Starting Place for Strategy Development: Customer Value
    8. 1.7. What’s Next?
  8. 2. Designing Supply Chains
    1. Terms
    2. 2.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 2.2. Design Consideration in a Firm’s Supply Chain Organizational Structure
    4. 2.3. Approaches to Supply Chain Design
    5. 2.4. Other Topics in Supply Chain Design
    6. 2.5. What’s Next?
  9. 3. Staffing Supply Chains
    1. Terms
    2. 3.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 3.2. Staffing Supply Chains
    4. 3.3. Global Staffing Considerations
    5. 3.4. Other Staffing Topics
    6. 3.5. What’s Next?
  10. 4. Managing Supply Chains
    1. Terms
    2. 4.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 4.2. Managerial Topics in Planning/Organizing Supply Chains
    4. 4.3. Managerial Topics in Staffing Supply Chains
    5. 4.4. Managerial Topics in Leading/Directing Supply Chains
    6. 4.5. Managerial Topics in Monitoring/Controlling Supply Chains
    7. 4.6. What’s Next?
  11. 5. Social, Ethical, and Legal Considerations
    1. Terms
    2. 5.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 5.2. Principles and Standards of Ethical Supply Management Conduct
    4. 5.3. Principles of Social Responsibility
    5. 5.4. Measuring Social Responsibility Performance
    6. 5.5. Other Social, Ethical, and Legal Topics
    7. 5.6. What’s Next?
  12. 6. Sustainable Supply Chains
    1. Terms
    2. 6.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 6.2. Managing Sustainable Supply Chains
    4. 6.3. A Model for Sustainability
    5. 6.4. Other Topics in Sustainability
    6. 6.5. What’s Next?
  13. 7. Aligning Supply Chains to Meet Life Cycle Customer Demands
    1. Terms
    2. 7.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 7.2. Demand Planning Procedure
    4. 7.3. Aligning Supply Chain Resources
    5. 7.4. Other Alignment Topics
    6. 7.5. What’s Next?
  14. 8. Negotiating
    1. Terms
    2. 8.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 8.2. Guiding Principles in Negotiating Agreements
    4. 8.3. Other Negotiation Topics
    5. 8.4. What’s Next?
  15. 9. Building an Agile and Flexible Supply Chain
    1. Terms
    2. 9.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 9.2. Agile Supply Chains
    4. 9.3. Flexible Supply Chain
    5. 9.4. Other Topics Related to Agile and Flexible Supply Chains
    6. 9.5. What’s Next?
  16. 10. Developing Partnerships in Supply Chains
    1. Terms
    2. 10.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 10.2. Supplier Relationship Management Implementation Model
    4. 10.3. Other Topics Related to Developing Partnership in Supply Chains
    5. 10.4. What’s Next?
  17. 11. Risk Management
    1. Terms
    2. 11.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 11.2. A Risk Management Process
    4. 11.3. Strategies and Tactics for Mitigating Risk
    5. 11.4. Other Topics in Risk Management
    6. 11.5. What’s Next?
  18. 12. Lean and Other Cost-Reduction Strategies in Supply Chain Management
    1. Terms
    2. 12.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 12.2. Lean Supply Chain Management Principles
    4. 12.3. Other Cost-Reduction Strategies
    5. 12.4. Other Topics in Lean and Other Cost-Reduction Strategies in Supply Chain Management
    6. 12.5. What’s Next?
  19. 13. Strategic Planning in Outsourcing
    1. Terms
    2. 13.1. Prerequisite Material
    3. 13.2. Strategic Planning and the Outsourcing Process
    4. 13.3. Other Topics in Strategic Planning in Outsourcing
    5. 13.4. What’s Next?
  20. 14. Interview with Mr. Mike Orr of Genuine Parts Company
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Interviewee
    3. About Genuine Parts Company
    4. Interview Questions and Answers
  21. 15. Interview with Mr. Mark Holifield of The Home Depot
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Interviewee
    3. About The Home Depot
    4. Interview Questions and Answers
  22. 16. Interview with Mr. Yadi Kamelian of Lincoln Industries
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Interviewee
    3. About Lincoln Industries
    4. Interview Questions and Answers
  23. 17. Interview with Mr. Eddie Capel of Manhattan Associates
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Interviewee
    3. About Manhattan Associates
    4. Interview Questions and Answers
  24. 18. Interview with Mr. Ron Robinson of LI-COR Biosciences
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Interviewee
    3. About LI-COR
    4. Interview Questions and Answers
  25. 19. Interview with Mr. James Chris Gaffney of The Coca-Cola Company
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Interviewee
    3. About The Coca-Cola Company
    4. Interview Questions and Answers
  26. 20. Interview with Mr. Brent Beabout of Office Depot
    1. Introduction
    2. About the Interviewee
    3. About Office Depot
    4. Interview Questions and Answers
  27. 21. Novelette: So You Want to Build a Plant in a Foreign Country
  28. 22. Novelette: So You Want to Eliminate a Plant in a Foreign Country
  29. References
  30. Index
  31. FT Press

Product information

  • Title: Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle: Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making
  • Author(s): Marc J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand
  • Release date: November 2012
  • Publisher(s): Pearson
  • ISBN: 9780132963916