• Provides everything you need to know about supply chains for developing and delivering a product or service successfully-strategic planning, industrial engineering, systems, organization, outsource assessment, partnering, third party logistics, re-engineering, and more.
• Covers methods and models in critical management tasks that relate to the supply chain-theory and trends, obstacles to change, problems, opportunities and solutions
• Describes and illustrates useful "how to" techniques for application to various points of the supply chain, while establishing basic principles
• Includes numerous industry case studies and describes how to apply solutions to specific situations
• Discusses multiple industries and services, existing manufacturing and distribution operations, new product issues, knowledge management, software selection and implementation, lean enterprises, operational and cost reduction, network modeling, demand flow, QFD and more.

When you invest millions on new systems you don't want yesterday's solutions. You need a global view of end-to-end material, information, and financial flows. Managers today have the same concerns managers had last year, 10 years ago, or 50 years ago: products, markets, people and skills operations, and finance. New supply chain management processes give managers a hierarchy to the tasks they must perform to deal with these issues.

Containing hundreds of tips and insights, the Handbook of Supply Chain Management describes the evolution of supply chain management. It explores how the techniques now popular in strategic planning and operations improvement will find new applications in managing supply chains. The author emphasizes changing supply chains rather than merely maintaining them. He uses case studies to illustrate the application of these techniques.