Supply Chain Management

Is supply chain management all about forecasting? Or is it just a warehousing and transportation function? Demystifying the mystery supply chain management is for many, Enterprise Supply Chain Management: Integrating Best-in-Class Processes offers a comprehensive look at the role of this field within your own organization. Written by industry leader Vivek Sehgal, this book invites you to evaluate your current supply chain practices and leverage its best in class concepts to your own challenges.

Quantitative Methods in Supply Chain Management presents some of the most important methods and tools available for modeling and solving problems arising in the context of supply chain management. In the context of this book, “solving problems” usually means designing efficient algorithms for obtaining high-quality solutions.
The first chapter is an extensive optimization review covering continuous unconstrained and constrained linear and nonlinear optimization algorithms, as well as dynamic programming and discrete optimization exact methods and heuristics. The second chapter presents time-series forecasting methods together with prediction market techniques for demand forecasting of new products and services. The third chapter details models and algorithms for planning and scheduling with an emphasis on production planning and personnel scheduling.

Supply Chain Management. Master the Fundamentals: Logistics, Operations, Planning, Sourcing, and Strategy

Das Buch ist ein zeitloses Handbuch für alle Entscheider und Manager, die für die Supply Chain ihres Unternehmens verantwortlich sind. Es eröffnet eine strategische Perspektive zum Aufbau von Kernkompetenzen und zur Schaffung von Wettbewerbsvorteilen in jedem der grundlegenden Supply-Chain-Prozesse: Planung, Beschaffung, Herstellung, Lieferung und Rücklieferung. Die Autoren der vorliegenden Übersetzung sind Experten des in diesem Sektor weltweit führenden Beratungsunternehmens PRTM (Erfinder des als Industriestandard anerkannten Supply Chain Operations Reference Model – SCOR). Praxisbeispiele internationaler Unternehmen wie General Motors, Autoliv, Avon, Eli Lilly, Owens Corning und Seagate zeigen Supply-Chain-Konzepte und deren Realisierung.

The book focuses on the development of the concept of supply chain management and the current state of knowledge on supply chain structure and infrastructure. It draws together knowledge from materials management, purchasing and supply management, operations management, industrial marketing and logistics perspectives, as well as industrial economics, organizational behaviour, systems thinking, and strategic management.

This book focuses on three essential elements of agricultural supply chains: Planting and Growing, Processing and Selling, and Government Interventions. For decades, most agricultural economists applied macro-economic theory in decisions pertaining to the optimization of food production and distribution. However, examining challenges in agricultural supply chain operations through the lens of micro-economic theory by considering how individual farmers and food processors respond to changes in market conditions is imperative because it can enable policymakers and social enterprises to develop and design market information provision policy, incentive contracts and market structures for improving farmer, processor, and consumer welfare.