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Supply chain management
Dr. Dawei Lu

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management

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Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management
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Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management

Contents

Contents
Preface

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1

Introduction

8

1.1

Why Supply Chain Management

8

1.2

Defining supply chains

9

1.2

Customer Orientation

11

1.3

Defining Supply Chain Management

13

1.3

Development Trends

16

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Global Supply Chain Operations

17

2.1

Global Business Environment

17

2.2

Strategic Challenges

19

2.3

How Global Supply Chains Responded

2.4

Current Trends in Global SCM

3

Supply Chain Design and Planning

3.1

Supply Chain Configuration

3.3

Extent of Vertical Integration

3.4

Outsourcing and Offshoring

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3.6

Capacity Planning

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3.7

Bullwhip Effect

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Lean Supply Management

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4.1

Origins of the Lean Manufacturing

50

4.2

Lean Supply Principles

51

4.3

Focusing on Cost-to-Serve

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4.4

Drivers for Lean Supply Chain

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4.5

Lean Process Mapping Tools

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Agile Supply Management

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5.1

The Need for



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