Learn today’s supply chain best practices from the field’s most complete and up-to-date set of cases! In The Supply Chain Management Casebook, leading supply chain expert and popular professor Chuck Munson brings together more than 20 new cases addressing every functional area of modern SCM. Students, instructors, and practitioners will find focused, succinct cases addressing procurement, supply chain design, warehousing and logistics, transportation, supplier management, distribution management, supply chain strategy, inventory control, information technology, pricing, forecasting, demand management, supply chain risk, and supply chain coordination.
This casebook is the most cost-effective and flexible way to provide modern cases for any supply chain management course. Each of its qualitative cases is supported by relevant discussion questions and sample responses; all quantitative cases are supported by completed numerical solutions, and associated spreadsheets where applicable.
While several supply chain management texts contain a small group of case studies, there has been no single reference solely devoted to a set of supply chain management cases for professors and their students. This contributed casebook fills the gap, offering faculty and students an extensive set of concise and focused cases covering a broad range of modern SCM practices. Drawing on his extensive network of practitioners, Chuck Munson presents more than 20 cases, each with more content, data, and background than cases typically presented in textbooks. Munson's cases address every functional aspect of supply chain management, including:
Procurement
Supply chain design
Warehousing and logistics
Transportation
Supplier management
Distribution management
Supply chain strategy
Inventory control
Information technology
Pricing
Forecasting
Demand management
Supply chain risk
Supply chain coordination
This text's qualitative cases are supported by relevant discussion questions and sample responses; its quantitative cases are supported by completed numerical solutions, and, where applicable, associated spreadsheets.
This casebook is the most cost-effective and flexible way to provide modern cases for any supply chain management course. Each of its qualitative cases is supported by relevant discussion questions and sample responses; all quantitative cases are supported by completed numerical solutions, and associated spreadsheets where applicable.
While several supply chain management texts contain a small group of case studies, there has been no single reference solely devoted to a set of supply chain management cases for professors and their students. This contributed casebook fills the gap, offering faculty and students an extensive set of concise and focused cases covering a broad range of modern SCM practices. Drawing on his extensive network of practitioners, Chuck Munson presents more than 20 cases, each with more content, data, and background than cases typically presented in textbooks. Munson's cases address every functional aspect of supply chain management, including:
Procurement
Supply chain design
Warehousing and logistics
Transportation
Supplier management
Distribution management
Supply chain strategy
Inventory control
Information technology
Pricing
Forecasting
Demand management
Supply chain risk
Supply chain coordination
This text's qualitative cases are supported by relevant discussion questions and sample responses; its quantitative cases are supported by completed numerical solutions, and, where applicable, associated spreadsheets.