Supply chain management

Author: Ma Shihua
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Supply Chain Management comprehensively discusses the origin, development, and operational methods of supply chain management concepts. The book is rich in content, broad in perspective, and offers fresh insights, successfully linking economic development, market environments, user demands, and corporate operational strategies. It serves as an excellent reference for business managers, EMBA, and MBA students. This book will enable you to:
- Deeply understand the core principles of supply chain management;
- Fully recognize the value of strategic partnerships;
- Master the role of supply chain management in enhancing corporate profitability and competitiveness;
- Clearly grasp the roles and responsibilities of senior executives;
- Embark on the path to successful innovation in corporate logistics systems;
- Scientifically assess the contributions of partners to management innovation and operational improvements;
- Achieve "win-win" or even "multi-win" outcomes with partners and users.
Every enterprise holds immense competitive potential—how can it be fully and efficiently leveraged? Today, with the rapid development of supply chain management theory and practice in China, many enterprises have achieved remarkable results in supply chain management, becoming industry benchmarks.
Building on the foundation of the previous edition, this book has adjusted the order of some chapters, enriched with new research findings, added and updated necessary cases, and incorporated more valuable resources. The key themes include:
- Integrating social resources, expanding corporate functions, and strengthening the strategic role of supply chain management;
- Selecting optimal partners, achieving shared risk and profit, and collectively improving competitiveness;
- Enhancing logistics efficiency in the supply chain through technologies like VMI and third-party logistics, reducing inventory costs, and adding real value;
- Mastering performance evaluation techniques for supply chain operations and formulating reasonable incentive mechanisms to maintain the vitality of the supply chain's overall competitiveness;
- Redesigning organizational structures and business processes, optimizing resource elements, and achieving maximum efficiency.
Leveraging advanced information technology, establishing support systems and platforms for supply chain management operations, and reducing uncertainties in coordination through information integration.
This book provides an in-depth study of the historical context of the emergence and development of supply chain management, introducing its meaning and significance. It specifically covers core topics such as:
- Business outsourcing and corporate scalability;
- Supply chain construction models and methods;
- Selection of supply chain partners;
- Production and operational management in supply chain environments;
- Logistics management and inventory management;
- Information support technologies that underpin supply chain management operations.
It also introduces the optimization of operational processes and the restructuring of corporate business processes based on the characteristics of supply chain management operations, outlining the constituent elements of supply chain management organizational systems and the principles for redesigning business processes.
Finally, the book explores performance evaluation and incentive mechanisms for supply chain enterprises.
This book is suitable for senior management personnel and supply chain management professionals in enterprises, as well as upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in management science, logistics management, MBA, corporate management, systems engineering, and related fields at universities.