Supply Chain Management (theories & Practices)

Professionals engaged in managing the supply chain today do express the needs for a usable knowledge base, which can transform their traditional mindsets and help them in preparing a holistic map for transforming the supply chain management process. This book is an attempt to attain this objective. The book provides ample guidelines for the practitioners for implementing SCM initiatives to learn basically the “why, what and how” of supply chain management. The aspects covered in this book are:

· Holistic and systematic treatment for various themes.
· Review of state-of-art.
· Empirical evidences at every stage
· Extensive breadth of coverage
· Modularity of topics
· Cases and examples from industry
· Tools and techniques
· Focused objectives for learning

Table of contents :
Chapter 1: Supply Chain Management: What and Why?
Chapter 2: Strategic Decisions in Supply Chain Management
Chapter 3: Source Management in Supply Chain
Chapter 4: Inventory management in Supply Chain
Chapter 5: Transportation Management in the Supply Chain
Chapter 6: Information Technology in Supply Chain
Chapter 7: Information Systems in Supply Chain
Chapter 8: Mathematical Modelling For Supply Chain
Chapter 9: Reverse Supply Chain
Chapter 10: Integration and Collaborative Supply Chain
Chapter 11: Agile Supply Chain
Chapter 12: Cases in Supply Chain


Market Description :
- Students in business schools (BBA, MBA)
- Students in engineering colleges (B.Tech., M.Tech)
- Students in executive education programs

About Author :
Prof. Mohanty is currently the Vice President (Manpower & Training) at the Associated Cement Companies Ltd., Mumbai. He holds a Ph.D in Management.

Prof. S.G. Deshmukh is currently teaching in the mechanical engineering department of IIT, New Delhi. He received his B.Tech (Mech.), M.Tech (Ind. Engg. & OR) and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay.