Contents
How Readers Can Use this Encyclopedia
How Instructors Can Use this Encyclopedia
Quotes From Professors and Students
Essential Supply Chain and Operations Terms
Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle: Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making
Chapter 1 Developing Supply Chain Strategies
1.2 Supply Chain Strategic Planning
1.3 Critical Success Factors in Developing a Supply Chain Strategy
1.5 A Procedure for Supply Chain Strategy Development
1.6 Starting Place for Strategy Development: Customer Value
Chapter 2 Designing Supply Chains
2.2 Design Consideration in a Firm’s Supply Chain Organizational Structure
2.3 Approaches to Supply Chain Design
2.4 Other Topics in Supply Chain Design
Chapter 3 Staffing Supply Chains
3.3 Global Staffing Considerations
Chapter 4 Managing Supply Chains
4.2 Managerial Topics in Planning/Organizing Supply Chains
4.3 Managerial Topics in Staffing Supply Chains
4.4 Managerial Topics in Leading/Directing Supply Chains
4.5 Managerial Topics in Monitoring/Controlling Supply Chains
Chapter 5 Social, Ethical, and Legal Considerations
5.2 Principles and Standards of Ethical Supply Management Conduct
5.3 Principles of Social Responsibility
5.4 Measuring Social Responsibility Performance
5.5 Other Social, Ethical, and Legal Topics
Chapter 6 Sustainable Supply Chains
6.2 Managing Sustainable Supply Chains
6.3 A Model for Sustainability
6.4 Other Topics in Sustainability
Chapter 7 Aligning Supply Chains to Meet Life Cycle Customer Demands
7.3 Aligning Supply Chain Resources
8.2 Guiding Principles in Negotiating Agreements
Chapter 9 Building an Agile and Flexible Supply Chain
9.4 Other Topics Related to Agile and Flexible Supply Chains
Chapter 10 Developing Partnerships in Supply Chains
10.2 Supplier Relationship Management Implementation Model
10.3 Other Topics Related to Developing Partnership in Supply Chains
11.2 A Risk Management Process
11.3 Strategies and Tactics for Mitigating Risk
11.4 Other Topics in Risk Management
Chapter 12 Lean and Other Cost-Reduction Strategies in Supply Chain Management
12.2 Lean Supply Chain Management Principles
12.3 Other Cost-Reduction Strategies
12.4 Other Topics in Lean and Other Cost-Reduction Strategies in Supply Chain Management
Chapter 13 Strategic Planning in Outsourcing
13.2 Strategic Planning and the Outsourcing Process
13.3 Other Topics in Strategic Planning in Outsourcing
Chapter 14 Interview with Mr. Mike Orr of Genuine Parts Company
Interview Questions and Answers
Chapter 15 Interview with Mr. Mark Holifield of The Home Depot
Interview Questions and Answers
Chapter 16 Interview with Mr. Yadi Kamelian of Lincoln Industries
Interview Questions and Answers
Chapter 17 Interview with Mr. Eddie Capel of Manhattan Associates
Interview Questions and Answers
Chapter 18 Interview with Mr. Ron Robinson of LI-COR Biosciences
Interview Questions and Answers
Chapter 19 Interview with Mr. James Chris Gaffney of The Coca-Cola Company
Interview Questions and Answers
Chapter 20 Interview with Mr. Brent Beabout of Office Depot
Interview Questions and Answers
Chapter 21 Novelette: So You Want to Build a Plant in a Foreign Country
Chapter 22 Novelette: So You Want to Eliminate a Plant in a Foreign Country
Supply Chain Network Design: Applying Optimization and Analytics to the Global Supply Chain
Part I: Introduction and Basic Building Blocks
1 The Value of Supply Chain Network Design
2 Intuition Building with Center of Gravity Models
3 Locating Facilities Using a Distance-Based Approach
4 Alternative Service Levels and Sensitivity Analysis
5 Adding Capacity to the Model
Part II: Adding Costs to Two-Echelon Supply Chains
6 Adding Outbound Transportation to the Model
7 Introducing Facility Fixed and Variable Costs
8 Baselines and Optimal Baselines
Part III: Advanced Modeling and Expanding to Multiple Echelons
9 Three-Echelon Supply Chain Modeling
10 Adding Multiple Products and Multisite Production Sourcing
11 Multi-Objective Optimization
Part IV: How to Get Industrial-Strength Results
13 Data Aggregation in Network Design
14 Creating a Group and Running a Project