3rd Edition

Supply Chain Strategies Demand Driven and Customer Focused

By Tony Hines Copyright 2024
416 Pages 119 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

416 Pages 119 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

416 Pages 119 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Supply Chain Strategies demonstrates how organizations must take strategic decisions in order to manage their supply chains to sustain competitiveness in the global economy. Whereas many textbooks on supply chain management focus on purchasing and operations, this new edition of Tony Hines’ text focuses upon the direction-setting and efficient resource-allocation that organizations need to... Read more

1 Environmental context for supply chain strategies

2 Supply chain risk – 7Vs

3 Strategic concepts and the customer-focused market-driven supply chain

4 The emergence of supply chain management and supply chain strategy as a critical success factor for organizations

5 Demand-driven customer-focused supply chain strategies

6 Supplier sourcing, procurement and evaluation

7 Supply chain structures and relationships

8 Supply chain technology

9 Strategic supply chain cost, value and measurement

10 Service levels, synchronization of business processes and inventories

11 Supply chain profitability, quality and world-class organizations

12 Logistics and fulfilment strategies

13 Supply chain futures

14 The big transition: realigning global supply chains

Biography

Tony Hines is CEO of Consuming Future, a London-based consultancy which supports and promotes ethical and sustainable business practices. Previously, he was Professor of Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University.