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  title info:
    title: Distribution Planning and Control
    sub title: Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management
  name:
    name part: Ross, David Frederick.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: 3rd ed. 2015.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXV, 915 p. 269 illus., 49 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This third edition provides operations management students, academics, and professionals with a fully up-to-date, practical and comprehensive sourcebook in the science of distribution and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Its objective is not only to discover the roots and detail the techniques of supply and delivery channel networks, but also to explore the impact of the merger of SCM concepts and information technologies on all aspects of internal business and supply channel management. This textbook provides a thorough and sometimes analytical view of the topic, while remaining approachable from the standpoint of the reader. Although the text is broad enough to encompass all the management activities found in today's logistics and distribution channel organizations, it is detailed enough to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of essential strategic and tactical planning and control processes, as well as problem-solving techniques that can be applied to everyday operations. Distribution Planning and Control: Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management, 3rd Ed. is comprised of fifteen chapters, divided into five units. Unit 1 of the text, The SCM and Distribution Management Environment, sets the background necessary to understand today’s supply chain environment. Unit 2, SCM Strategies, Channel Structures, and Demand Management, reviews the activities involved in performing strategic planning, designing channel networks, forecasting, and managing channel demand. Unit 3, Inventory Management in the Supply Chain Environment, provides an in-depth review of managing supply chain inventories, statistical inventory management, and inventory management in a multiechelon channel environment. Unit 4, Supply Chain Execution, traces the translation of the strategic supply chain plans into detailed customer and supplier management, warehousing, and transportation operations activities. Finally Unit 5, International Distribution and Supply Chain Technologies, concl…
  table of contents: SCM and the Distribution Management Environment -- Introduction to Supply Chain Management -- The Distribution Management Environment -- SCM Strategies, Channel Structures and Demand Management -- Crafting Business and Supply Chain Strategies -- Designing Channel Networks -- Forecasting in the Supply Chain Environment -- Demand Management -- Inventory Management in the Supply Chain Environment.- Managing Supply Chain Inventories -- Statistical Inventory Management -- Replenishment in a Multiechelon Channel Environment -- Supply Chain Operations Execution -- Customer Management -- Procurement and Supplier Management -- Warehouse Management -- Transportation Management -- International Distribution and Supply Chain Technologies -- International Distribution -- Information Technology and Supply Chain Management.
  note: by David Frederick Ross.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Production management
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economy
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Operations Management
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
  classification: TS155-TS194
  classification: 658.5
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781489975782
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7578-2
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    record creation date: 150514
    record change date: 20151204182116.0
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