Written by supply chain researchers, consultants, and practitioners, this book explains the newly emerging techniques and practices for highly efficient supply chain management, made possible by the rapid progress in information and communication technologies.

Written by supply chain researchers, consultants, and practitioners, this book explains the newly emerging techniques and practices for highly efficient supply chain management, made possible by the rapid progress in information and communication technologies.

Many manufacturing and distribution companies are moving from the traditional 'forecast push MRP' to demand-driven supply chain management (SCM). Demand-driven SCM is an 'end-to-end' supply chain planning and replenishment process that enables companies to achieve their planned service levels from up to half the average level of inventory and requiring significantly less throughput capacity - irrespective of the level of demand volatility or lead-time length. Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management is the go-to source for industry supply chain/operations executives and students. It describes the 'what, how and why' of the demand-driven SCM process. The key themes in the book are: what is demand-driven? why is demand-driven so effective? how to operate a demand-driven supply chain? and how to adopt the demand-driven process in your company? Readers can quickly grasp the essential concepts from one of numerous self-contained sections that present the book's key concepts from different perspectives. Online resources available include full-colour figures.

This title provides expert advice on enabling the faster adoption of the right strategies, processes and tools and best practices, as well as exploring both new and existing strategies and technology across the entire supplier interface. It also addresses the practical issues surrounding implementation, from planning and training to results tracking.

Effective demand management is becoming critical to acompany's profitability. Demand Management BestPractices: Process, Principles, and Collaborationprovides best practice solutions that will improveoverall business performance for supply chain partnersand all functions within a company impacted by the demandmanagement process. The ......

This edited book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from today’s sharing economy from an operations management perspective. Individual chapter authors present state-of-the-art research that examines the general impact of sharing economy on production and consumption; the intermediary role of a sharing platform; crowdsourcing management; and context-based operational problems. Sharing economy refers to a market model that enables and facilitates the sharing of access to goods and services. For example, Uber allows riders to share a car. Airbnb allows homeowners to share their extra rooms with renters. Groupon crowdsources demands, enabling customers to share the benefit of discounted goods and services, whereas Kickstarter crowdsources funds, enabling backers to fund a project jointly. Unlike the classic supply chain settings in which a firm makes inventory and supply decisions, in sharing economy, supply is crowdsourced and can be modulated by a platform. The matching-supply-with-demand process in a sharing economy requires novel perspectives and tools to address challenges and identify opportunities. The book is comprised of 20 chapters that are divided into four parts. The first part explores the general impact of sharing economy on the production, consumption, and society. The second part explores the intermediary role of a sharing platform that matches crowdsourced supply with demand. The third part investigates the crowdsourcing management on a sharing platform, and the fourth part is dedicated to context-based operational problems of popular sharing economy applications. “While sharing economy is becoming omnipresence, the operations management (OM) research community has begun to explore and examine different business models in the transportation, healthcare, financial, accommodation, and sourcing sectors. This book presents a collection of the state-of-the-art research work conducted by a group of world-leading OM researchers in this area. Not only does this book cover a wide range of business models arising from the sharing economy, but it also showcases different modeling frameworks and research methods that cannot be missed. Ultimately, this book is a tour de force – informative and insightful!” Christopher S. Tang Distinguished Professor and Edward Carter Chair in Business Administration UCLA Anderson School of Management

In today s global economy, enterprises are changing continually, entering into new markets, encountering new competitors, introducing new products and restructuring themselves through mergers, acquisitions, alliances and divestitures. In order to stay competitive in such environments, enterprises require supply chain management solutions that are agile, responsive, resilient and dynamic.With the advances in supply chain management technologies and practices, supply chain becomes more adaptive or what we call on-demand supply chains. This book introduces some of these advanced concepts to make supply chains more adaptive and presents actual examples, many of which have been taken for early implementations at IBM supply chain operations.Chapter 1: Beyond ROIChapter 2: Supply Chain SimulationChapter 3: Inventory Management in High Technology Value ChainsChapter 4: Product Pricing in the e-Business EraChapter 5: Applications of Implosion in ManufacturingChapter 6: Strategic Sourcing and ProcurementChapter 7: Managing Risk with Structured Supply AgreementsChapter 8: Reverse Logistics - Capturing Value in the Extended Supply ChainChapter 9: Service Parts Logistics ManagementChapter 10: Business Process IntegrationChapter 11: Collaboration in e-Supply NetworksChapter 12: Sense and Respond Business Performance Management