The book is an important contribution and major milestone for the supply chan comunity. It is the forst book that covers the comprehensive breadth of supply chain topics i depth. And addresses the major challenges in this area. It was written by expert from academia and industry who have been researching, consulting and developing softwarefor supply chain management for many years.
The book include the many classic and new case studies, numerous examples as well as in-depth analyses of some of the technical issues involve in the inventory management, network design, and strategic partnering, to name a few. It is therefor an ideal text book for classes on supply chain management at the undergraduate, Master and M.B.A. levels. Since each chapter it self contained, instructor can pick the chapters they want to use depending on the length of the class and its requirement. The book comes with three computerized games. The Computerized Beer Game provide an exellent intructional tool that engage students i managing a supply chain and provide a strating point for discussing the value of information in the supply chain, strategic partnering, centralized decision making, and so forth. The Risk Poll Game allows student to gain insight on an important concept in supply chain management, called risk polling. The Bidding Game ilustrates important procurement strategies. The author have been most creative in using games to motivate and expose students to challenging subjects.