Distribution Planning and Control Managing in the Era of Supply Chain Management /

• Main Author: Ross, David Frederick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Engineering economics.; Engineering economy.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing.

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 supp...

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.