Optimize supply chains throughout their entire lifecycle: creation, growth, maturity, and decline! Reflecting up-to-the-minute "in-the-trenches" experience and pioneering research, this book illuminates the complex transformational processes associated with managing complex supply chains that incorporate multiple products and services within ever-changing networks. Marc J. Schniederjans and Stephen B. Legrand walk you through: starting, creating, and building new supply chains; then, realigning those supply chains for growth, adjusting to dynamic change, readjusting networks, building flexibility, and managing new supply chain risks. Next, they offer practical, realistic guidance for realigning "mature" supply chains, innovating, controlling costs; and smoothly managing declining demand. Throughout, they offer invaluable insights and tools for negotiating, measuring performance, anticipating change, improving agility and flexibility, meeting commitments to social responsibility and the law; and much more. Based on the authors' up-to-the minute supply chain experience and pioneering academic research, Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle contains many real-world examples and interviews with executives from some of the world’s top organizations. It integrates content related to key certifications and offers valuable material that can be incorporated directly into existing supply chain practices, procedures, and policies.  

Table of Contents:
About the Authors    xiii Preface    xv Chapter  1 Developing Supply Chain Strategies    1 Terms    2 1.1 Prerequisite Material    5 1.2 Supply Chain Strategic Planning    12 1.3 Critical Success Factors in Developing a Supply Chain Strategy    21 1.4 Supply Chain Strategies    23 1.5 A Procedure for Supply Chain Strategy Development    25 1.6 Starting Place for Strategy Development: Customer Value    28 1.7 What’s Next?    31 Chapter  2 Designing Supply Chains    33 Terms    33 2.1 Prerequisite Material    37 2.2 Design Consideration in a Firm’s Supply Chain Organizational Structure    41 2.3 Approaches to Supply Chain Design    46 2.4 Other Topics in Supply Chain Design    53 2.5 What’s Next?    57 Chapter  3 Staffing Supply Chains    59 Terms    60 3.1 Prerequisite Material    64 3.2 Staffing Supply Chains    67 3.3 Global Staffing Considerations    72 3.4 Other Staffing Topics    86 3.5 What’s Next?    91 Chapter  4 Managing Supply Chains    93 Terms    94 4.1 Prerequisite Material    97 4.2 Managerial Topics in Planning/ Organizing Supply Chains    97 4.3 Managerial Topics in Staffing Supply Chains    105 4.4 Managerial Topics in Leading/ Directing Supply Chains    111 4.5 Managerial Topics in Monitoring/Controlling Supply Chains    115 4.6 What’s Next?    120 Chapter  5 Social, Ethical, and Legal Considerations    123 Terms    123 5.1 Prerequisite Material    127 5.2 Principles and Standards of Ethical Supply Management Conduct    130 5.3 Principles of Social Responsibility    132 5.4 Measuring Social Responsibility Performance    133 5.5 Other Social, Ethical, and Legal Topics    136 5.6 What’s Next?    141 Chapter  6 Sustainable Supply Chains    143 Terms    143 6.1 Prerequisite Material    147 6.2 Managing Sustainable Supply Chains    149 6.3 A Model for Sustainability    153 6.4 Other Topics in Sustainability    155 6.5 What’s Next?    163 Chapter  7 Aligning Supply Chains to Meet Life Cycle Customer Demands    165 Terms    166 7.1 Prerequisite Material    169 7.2 Demand Planning Procedure    172 7.3 Aligning Supply Chain Resources    176 7.4 Other Alignment Topics    187 7.5 What’s Next?    190 Chapter  8 Negotiating    193 Terms    193 8.1 Prerequisite Material    198 8.2 Guiding Principles in Negotiating Agreements    202 8.3 Other Negotiation Topics    213 8.4 What’s Next?    218 Chapter  9 Building an Agile and Flexible Supply Chain    221 Terms    221 9.1 Prerequisite Material    225 9.2 Agile Supply Chains    229 9.3 Flexible Supply Chain    235 9.4 Other Topics Related to Agile and Flexible Supply Chains    238 9.5 What’s Next?    243 Chapter  10 Developing Partnerships in Supply Chains    245 Terms    245 10.1 Prerequisite Material    249 10.2 Supplier Relationship Management Implementation Model    253 10.3 Other Topics Related to Developing Partnership in Supply Chains    261 10.4 What’s Next?    266 Chapter  11 Risk Management    269 Terms    269 11.1 Prerequisite Material    273 11.2 A Risk Management Process    277 11.3 Strategies and Tactics for Mitigating Risk    283 11.4 Other Topics in Risk Management    288 11.5 What’s Next?    293 Chapter  12 Lean and Other Cost-Reduction Strategies in Supply Chain Management    297 Terms    298 12.1 Prerequisite Material    302 12.2 Lean Supply Chain Management Principles    308 12.3 Other Cost-Reduction Strategies    319 12.4 Other Topics in Lean and Other Cost-Reduction Strategies in Supply Chain Management    323 12.5 What’s Next?    327 Chapter  13 Strategic Planning in Outsourcing    329 Terms    330 13.1 Prerequisite Material    333 13.2 Strategic Planning and the Outsourcing Process    336 13.3 Other Topics in Strategic Planning in Outsourcing    359 13.4 What’s Next?    363 Chapter  14 Interview with Mr. Mike Orr of Genuine Parts Company    367 Introduction    367 About the Interviewee    367 About Genuine Parts Company    368 Interview Questions and Answers    369 Chapter  15 Interview with Mr. Mark Holifield of The Home Depot    379 Introduction    379 About the Interviewee    379 About The Home Depot    380 Interview Questions and Answers    381 Chapter  16 Interview with Mr. Yadi Kamelian of Lincoln Industries    387 Introduction    387 About the Interviewee    387 About Lincoln Industries    388 Interview Questions and Answers    389 Chapter  17 Interview with Mr. Eddie Capel of Manhattan Associates    395 Introduction    395 About the Interviewee    395 About Manhattan Associates    396 Interview Questions and Answers    396 Chapter  18 Interview with Mr. Ron Robinson of LI-COR Biosciences    403 Introduction    403 About the Interviewee    403 About LI-COR    404 Interview Questions and Answers    404 Chapter  19 Interview with Mr. James Chris Gaffney of The Coca-Cola Company    413 Introduction    413 About the Interviewee    413 About the Coca-Cola Company    414 Interview Questions and Answers    415 Chapter  20 Interview with Mr. Brent Beabout of Office Depot    421 Introduction    421 About the Interviewee    421 About Office Depot    422 Interview Questions and Answers    422 Chapter  21 Novelette: So You Want to Build a Plant in a Foreign Country    429 Chapter  22 Novelette: So You Want to Eliminate a Plant in a Foreign Country    435 References    443 Index    461