Supply Chain Science

Name: Supply Chain Science
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ISBN: 9780073403328

ISBN-10: 0073403326

ISBN-13: 9780073403328

Edition: 2008

Authors: Wallace J. Hopp

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"Supply Chain Science" describes the collection of people, resources, and activities involved in bringing materials and information together to produce and deliver goods and services to customers. Through illustrations and analogies to everyday life, the text presents the key concepts that underlie the behavior of operations systems in a largely non-mathematical way. The goal of SCS is to provide a concise framework for understanding how complex production and supply chain systems behave, and therefore enable managers/students to have a stronger basis for management decision making. The range of problems faced by managers dealing with supply chains is almost infinite, which is why a…

Book details

List price: $101.56
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date: 10/12/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English




Strategic Foundations



Starting with Strategy



Setting Our Goals



Defining Our Terms



Structuring Our Study


Questions for Thought



Station Science



Capacity



Introduction



Measuring Capacity



Limits on Capacity



Impact of Utilization


Questions for Thought



Variability



Introduction



Little's Law



Measuring Variability



Influence of Variability


Questions for Thought



Batching



Introduction



Simultaneous Batching



Sequential Batching



Multiproduct Batching


Questions for Thought



Line Science



Flows



Introduction



Characterizing Flows



Best-Case Performance



Worst-Case Performance



Practical Worst-Case Performance



Internal Benchmarking



Variability Propagation



Improving Performance of Process Flows


Questions for Thought



Buffering



Introduction



Buffering Fundamentals



The Role of Strategy



Buffer Flexibility



Buffer Location



The Science of Lean Production


Questions for Thought



Push/Pull



Introduction



What Is Pull?



Examples of Pull Systems



The Magic of Pull



Comparisons of Push and Pull



Pull Implementation


Questions for Thought



Network Science



Inventory



Introduction



Classification



Cycle Stock



Safety Stock



Periodic Review Systems



Continuous Review Systems



Multi-Item Systems


Questions for Thought



Risk



Introduction



Pooling



Contingency Planning



Crisis Management


Questions for Thought



Coordination



Introduction



Hierarchical Inventory Management



The Inventory/Order Interface



The Bullwhip Effect



Supply Chain Contracts



Information Management



Restructuring Supply Chains


Questions for Thought



Summary of Notation



Supply Chain Science Principles


References


Index