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Essentials of Supply Chain Management, 2nd Edition

by Michael Hugos

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Fully revised and expanded, the Second Edition contains valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices. This handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in supply chain management.

"Michael Hugos presents the core concepts and techniques of supply chain management in a clear, concise, and easily readable style for those desiring an introduction to the subject or for those wanting to refine their understanding and application of supply chain issues. The case studies and executive insights are very useful in illustrating how to effectively employ supply chains to enable companies to accomplish their business goals."
-Perry J. Gaid, Vice President of Purchasing, OneSource Facility Services, Inc.

"My company is involved in both manufacturing and distribution. Mr. Hugos's book provides a valuable framework of concepts and techniques that people at all levels of the company can use to organize and improve our supply chain management capabilities and tie them to our business strategy."
-Grant Watkinson, Ph.D., President, Coastwide Laboratories, Inc.

Praise for the First Edition

"An excellent introduction into supply chain management . . . a book you should own and loan out to others frequently."
-Supply Management

"In clear and concise prose, this lean book outlines the most crucial tenets and concepts of supply chain management."
-Supply Chain Management Review

The Wiley Essentials Series-because the business world is always changing...and so should you.


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Average Customer Review:4.5 out of 5 stars
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 starsA good, concise overview, 2008-05-24
This book provides a good, concise overview that points the way for additional reading. It contains many useful tips and techniques. The case studies could have been more detailed.

Chapter 1 - A good briefing on the importance of getting the supply chain correctly aligned to the markets.

Chapter 2 - Highlights the four business operations that drive the supply chain. The sourcing operation could have dealt with more in more depth.

Chapter 3 - A reminder that outsourcing is an option.

Chapter 4 - Using Information Technology, the holy grail.

Chapter 5 - How to measure for improvement. A useful market quadrant framework is provided to assist with identification of the market a company serves.

Chapter 6 - The benefits of collaboration to improve supply chain co-ordination.

Chapter 7 - Supply chain opportunities, pulls all the previous topics together with many useful tips and techniques.

Chapter 8 - Supply chains for competitive advantage - useful pointers to assist with identifying the improvements that should be prioritized.

Chapter 9 - Real time supply chain - creating a learning system. This chapter would benefit from mored detailed case studies.



1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2 out of 5 starsJust an introduction to the supply chain concept, 2007-10-12
This book repeats many time same items and is too focused on distribution business e.g. Walmart, Paper utilities... and does not address the industrial worls such as in aeronautic, defense...
The information convied in this book is very general. for my point of view, it is unsufficient to start setting up a supply chain.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 starsGood Overview, 2007-09-28
This book provides a good overview of the basic principles of supply Chain Managment. After reading the book, I was able to directly apply the principles to solve several problems in supply chains I am dealing with in my supplier development job.

The principles are logically presented and backed up with examples that illustrate their application. I would recommend this book especially for people in Manufacturing or engineering who are trying to understand how to improve performance across a supply chain or how to make their supply chain management process more efficient and effective.




1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 starsBuen libro para principiantes, 2007-06-06
Se entienden rapidamente los conceptos principales, un buen libro de comienzo en el tema.


9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4 out of 5 starsGood "Executive Summary", 2006-11-02
One of the best primers I have read so far on SCM. While not a blue-print on how to implment SCM, it really does provide an excellent overview of the benefits of SCM and the steps a company would take to introduce SCM. One of the best sections of the book introduces new trends within SCM. This section alone made the book a good investment. Recommend it for top management looking to get a good, but basic understanding of SCM




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