The Practice of Supply Chain Management: Where Theory and Application Converge

Core Concepts and Practices -- Principles for the Strategic Design of Supply Chains -- Tactical Planning for Reinventing the Supply Chain -- The Role of Inventory in Superior Supply Chain Performance -- Supply Chain Performance Metrics -- Emerging Supply Chain Practices -- Sourcing Strategy and Supplier Relationships: Alliances Versus eProcurement -- Supply-Chain Coordination: How Companies Leverage Information Flows to Generate Value -- Supply-Chain.Net: The Impact of Web-Based Technologies on Supply Chain Management -- e-Business and Supply Chain Integration -- Managing Product Variety Through Postponement: Concept and Applications -- Creating and Leveraging Options in the High Technology Supply Chain -- Managing Supply Chains with Differentiated Service Requirements—Models and Applications -- Supply Chain in Action -- Data-Rich Supply Chain Management: The Case of Seven Eleven Japan -- Lucent Technologies: Achieving the “Impossible” by Using Provisioning and Postponement -- Measuring the Benefits of Product Standardization and Postponement of Configuration in a Supply Chain -- Combinatorial Auctions in Procurement -- The Benefits of Business-to-Business Applications for Fabless Semiconductor Companies -- Supply Chain Management at a Chip Tester Manufacturer -- Aerospace Supply Chain Dynamics -- Agent Models of Supply Network Dynamics.