"This new edition provides a focused message on how inventory optimization effects specific business verticals through improved metrics. It reviews the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that practitioners can attain a demand driven supply as well as provides a business perspective of why...

"Once business markets stabilize there will be a huge wave of mergers and acquisitions, and businesses will have to be prepared. In this book, the authors (merger and acquisitions experts) have completely revised their groundbreaking work, Joining Forces. They provide a successful M&A framework...

Introduction : what the book is all about -- Acknowledgements -- Reader's guide -- About the author and the motivation for this book -- Why lean SCM today? -- Supply chain management in process industries -- Guiding principles of lean SCM planning : facing VUCA challenges -- Fundamentals of lean...

PART I. INTEGRATING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT. What is a supply chain? -- What is supply chain management (SCM)? -- What are the tools of supply chain management (SCM)? -- What are the measures of a successful supply chain management? -- What does it take to create a world-class supply chain...