Supply Chain Management

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Supply Chain Management -- Chapter 1 The Growing Demand for Supply Chain Management -- Defining Supply Chain Management -- Exploring Complex Business Challenges -- Operating Under Supply Chain Management Principles -- Customer focus -- Systems thinking -- Bimodal innovation -- Collaboration -- Flexibility -- Technology -- Global perspective -- Risk management -- Visibility -- Value creation -- Introducing Five Supply Chain Tasks -- Implementing the New Supply Chain Agenda -- Placing the right people in the right jobs -- Putting the right technology in place -- Focusing on internal collaboration -- Directing external collaboration -- Applying project management -- Chapter 2 Understanding Supply Chains from Different Perspectives -- Managing Supply Chain Flows -- Synchronizing Supply Chain Functions -- Purchasing -- Logistics -- Operations -- Connecting Supply Chain Communities -- Designing Supply Chain Systems -- Measuring Supply Chain Processes -- Chapter 3 Digging into Your Supply Chain -- Prioritizing Supply Chain Goals -- Step 1: Understand what customers value -- Step 2: Recognize your competitors -- Step 3: Understand your products or services -- Looking at Cost Drivers -- Procurement costs -- Transportation costs -- Inventory costs -- Quality costs -- Dealing with Trade-Offs -- Sales versus operations -- Customer versus supplier -- Engineering versus procurement -- Inventory versus customer service -- Inventory versus downtime -- Procurement versus logistics -- Chapter 4 Optimizing Your Supply Chain -- Designing Your Network -- Improving and Innovating Processes -- Lean -- Six Sigma -- Theory of Constraints -- Structuring Supply Chain Projects