Daniel Stanton - Supply Chain Management for Dummies

Supply Chain Management For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020948677

ISBN: 978-1-119-67701-7 (pbk); 978-1-119-67703-1 (ebk); 978-1-119-67702-4 (ebk)

1. Chapter 2
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 5
5. Chapter 17
6. Chapter 19

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 11
11. Chapter 12
12. Chapter 13
13. Chapter 15
14. Chapter 17
15. Chapter 18
16. Chapter 19

Supply chain management is about seeing your business as an interconnected system. Supply Chain Management For Dummies covers the tools, rules, and language that you need to understand how the parts of your companys supply chain fit together. The book also shows you how to plan and manage your supply chain in ways that reduce costs, increase profits, and minimize risk.

Many books treat supply chain management as part of operations, logistics, or procurement, but this book takes a broader approach, showing that those functions are interconnected parts of a system.

I include lots of everyday examples that make it easy to understand each step in any supply chain and how virtually any company can employ supply chain principles.

Most people get to see only a small part of the supply chains that they work in. This book helps you understand all the other processes and systems in a supply chain, as well as how decisions that you make affect others up and down the supply chain, including your customers and suppliers. The book uses language thats easy to understand and is organized in a way that makes access to specific topics easy.

In writing this book, I assumed that supply chain management is important to you because

• You need to understand it for your current job.
• You need to understand it for a future job.
• You need to explain it to other people so that they can do their jobs better.

I assume that you have some connection to supply chain management, probably because youve studied or worked in logistics, operations, or procurement. I assume that you may have been taught to see supply chain management from a narrow, functional perspective rather than as an end-to-end, integrated system.

I assume that you want to understand how decisions made in one part of a supply chain can influence the results in another. Many companies have made bad choices with expensive consequences simply because they didnt recognize the effects of those choices on their supply chains. When you consider that more than 70 percent of costs and 100 percent of revenue depend on supply decisions, its clearly worth the time and energy to understand how to manage a supply chain efficiently.

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The Tip icon marks tips (duh!) and shortcuts that you can use to make supply chain management easier.

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