The Practice of Supply Chain Management

by Harrison, Terry P.; Lee, Hau L.; Neale, John J.

• ISBN13: 9781402074417
• ISBN10: 1402074417
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

For over a decade, there has been an increasing interest in the use of supply chain methods to improve performance across the entire business enterprise. Numerous industries have recognized the importance of efficient supply chain integration, and, as a result, supply chain management has become a standard part of business practice. The Practice of Supply Chain Management: Where Theory and Application Converge is a must-have volume for users of supply chain management methods, supply chain management researchers, and students in supply chain management. The objective of the book is to provide an overview of this important practice-research cycle, and it is organized into three sections: Core Concepts and Practices; Emerging Supply Chain Practices; and Supply Chain in Action. The focus of the book is on supply chain practice, but supply chain practice that has been heavily influenced by supply chain research. It is this synergy between research and practice that continues to simulate new directions for research.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction to The Practice of Supply Chain Management	xi
CORE CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES
1. Principles for the Strategic Design of Supply Chains	3	(10)
Terry P. Harrison
2. Tactical Planning for Reinventing the Supply Chain	13	(18)
David Simchi-Levi, Edith Simchi-Levi, and Michael Watson
3. The Role of Inventory in Superior Supply Chain Performance	31	(30)
John J. Neale, Brian T. Tomlin, and Sean P. Willems
4. Supply Chain Performance Metrics	61	(16)
Warren H. Hausman
EMERGING SUPPLY CHAIN PRACTICES
5. Sourcing Strategy and Supplier Relationships: Alliances versus eProcurement	77	(14)
David F. Pyke and M. Eric Johnson
6. Supply-Chain Coordination: How Companies Leverage Information Flows to Generate Value	91	(18)
Susan Cohen Kulp, Elie Ofek, and Jonathan Whitaker
7. Supply-Chain.Net: The Impact of Web-based Technologies on Supply Chain Management	109	(14)
Enver Yücesan and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
8. e-Business and Supply Chain Integration	123	(16)
Hau L. Lee and Seungjin Whang
9. Managing Product Variety through Postponement: Concept and Applications	139	(18)
S. Venkatesh and Jayashankar M. Swaminathan
10. Creating and Leveraging Options in the High Technology Supply Chain	157
Corey Billington and Blake Johnson
11. Managing Supply Chains with Differentiated Service Requirements-Models and Applications	115	(84)
Morris A. Cohen, Vinayak Deshpande, and Yunzeng Wang
12. Data-Rich Supply Chain Management: The Case of Seven Eleven Japan	199	(10)
Seungjin Whang
13. Lucent Technologies: Achieving the "Impossible" By Using Provisioning and Postponement	209	(12)
David W. Hoyt and Enrique Lopez-Tello
14. Measuring the Benefits of Product Standardization and Postponement of Configuration in a Supply Chain	221	(24)
Tony Davila and Marc Wouters
15. Combinatorial Auctions in Procurement	245	(14)
Wedad Elmaghraby and Pinar Keskinocak
16. The Benefits of Business-to-Business Applications for Fabless Semiconductor Companies	259	(18)
Barchi Peleg
17. Supply Chain Management at a Chip Tester Manufacturer	277	(16)
Srinagesh Gavirneni
18. Aerospace Supply Chain Dynamics	293	(22)
Thomas Bilczo, Larry Bugbee, Jonathan Fitzhugh, Dave Gilbert, Steve Halladin, James Rubert, and Benny Budiman
19. Agent Models of Supply Network Dynamics: Analysis, Design, and Operation	315	(30)
S. Brueckner, H. Baumgaertel, V. Parunak, R. Vanderbok, and J. Wilke
Index	345