Designing and managing the supply chain : Concepts, strategies and case studies 3rd ed
The reviewer planned to use this book as a text for his Supply Chain Management (SCM)course last Spring (2000) at the University of Nevada. He completed the college bookstore book requestform, using the ISBN (0-07-028594-2) found in the usual place, just inside the front cover. Severaldays before class began, a student visited the reviewer, anxiously inquiring: "Is Thomas H. Court-ney's Mechanical Behavior of Materials, 2"" edition really the text book for SCM?" An investigationsoon discovered the publisher's error?Courtney's ISBN was printed where Simchi-Levi's shouldhave been. With time running out, and copies of the former (Spring 1999) text still available in thebookstore, adoption of the book currently under review was aborted.Simchi-Levi, et al. define SCM as "a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers,manufacturers, warehouses, and stores, so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the rightquantities, to the right locations, and at the right time, in order to minimize systemwide costs whilesatisfying service level requirements" (p. 1). Note their supply chain, a.k.a. "logistics network," endsat the retail outlet. This neglects new, business-to-consumer (B2C) supply chains, which bypassretail stores and dramatically alter the logistical role of end consumers. It is also important to notethat the authors are re-labelers,' since they "do not distinguish between logistics and supply chainmanagement" (p. 3). In fact, their definition of SCM closely corresponds to the CLM definition oflogistics management.Chapters 2 and 3 cover quantitative modeling of warehouse location and inventory control, respec-tively. The Simchi-Levi, et al. warehousing model concentrates on number, location and size of ware-houses, along with matching products to customers. While this treatment of strategic warehousingdecisions is excellent, it is also distinctly quantitative. There is little mention of qualitative factors,such as quality of life and environmental issues. Meanwhile, the inventory chapter is dominated by"a single warehouse inventory example," with presentations of the economic order quantity (EOQ)and re-order point (ROP) models. The reviewer was surprised to find nothing on distribution require-ments planning (DRP) at this point, since DRP addresses the issue of echelon inventory in a supplychain.In Chapter 4, the authors diagram their supply chain, consisting of factory, distributor, whole-saler and retailer. Again, this supply chain excludes the household or end-consumer stage. This is despitethe book's downstream or forward focus, and de-emphasis on upstream issues between manufacturersand their suppliers. The highlight of this chapter?and perhaps the entire book?is its treatment ofthe bullwhip effect, which "suggests that variability in demand increases as one moves up in the supp
Call Number | Location | Available |
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Tan 658. 5 Lev d | PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana | 3 |
Penerbit | New York McGraw Hill., 2008 |
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Edisi | - |
Subjek | Supply chain Design |
ISBN/ISSN | 9780071287142 |
Klasifikasi | NONE |
Deskripsi Fisik | xxviii, 498 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
Info Detail Spesifik | - |
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