Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, & Operation. Third edition

Amazing! Used it for a Master's programme, for additional readings. Easy language and nice cases!

The content of this book is detailed, comprehensive and overall excellent. However, I agree with other comments: the binding of the book is really poor. It seems that the firm that manufactured the book failed to provide a quality product throughout the supply chain and I am bearing the cost of that!

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Excellent book

As Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl explain in their Preface, the purpose of their book is to help those who read it to "develop an understanding of the following key areas and their interrelationships: the strategic role of a supply chain, the key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and [the] analytical methodologies for supply chain analysis." I think their material will be of greatest interest and value to executives who are now centrally involved in management of larger organizations' supply chains. However, I think their book will also be of substantial benefit to others who are directly or indirectly involved as strategic allies in those supply chains, those who can also help to ensure effective management of them. Chopra and Meindl carefully organize their material as follows: Part I: Building a Strategic Framework to Analyze Supply Chains Part II: Designing the Supply Chain Network Part III: Planning Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain Part IV: Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain Part V: Designing and Planning Transportation Networks Part VI: Managing Cross-Functional Drivers in a Supply Chain I was especially interested in the final part because one of the greatest challenges when establishing and then sustaining an effective supply chain is to take into full account the need to get all participants in proper alignment, especially when cross-functional resources to achieve to achieve mutually-beneficial results. In Part VI, Chopra and Meindl respond to questions such as these: 1. What is the role of sourcing? 2. How to achieve design collaboration? 3. What are the most important "drivers" of pricing and revenue management? 4. What is IT's role? 5. What does effective risk management require? 6. What are the major barriers to effective coordination? 7. How to build strategic partnerships and trust between and among stakeholders? Many readers (I among them) will also appreciate the provision of a "Summary of Learning Objectives" and "Discussion Questions" at the conclusion of each of the 17 chapters. Credit Chopra and Meindl with fully achieving their objectives when they set out to write this book: To help their readers to understand the strategic role of a supply chain, the key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and the analytic methodologies for supply chain analysis. Bravo!

The content of this book is interesting but the binding work is very poor. While using the book, the pages disintegrate easily. Not satisfied with the workmanship.

Good stuff, practical and usefull. Ideal Text book for my class. Good cases to study and examples, Easy to read.

Die Autoren stellen Zusammenhänge sehr gut dar. Mit Hilfe von praktischen Beispielen werden (bspw.) Auswirkungen des Bullwhip Effektes und weiterer Einflüsse auf die Supply Chain verdeutlicht.

I was looking for a jobe and wanted to have a good refresh in my domain of expertise before interviews. It also provided me with new ideas well illustrated by many busines cases. I would recommand this book to anyone who wants to introduce himself to the integration sypply chain management practices in it's organization.

From what I've seen, it's basically the same as the North American version, but be warned that the case studies at the ends of the chapters will be different.

Amamzing book for supply chain.