"Existing supply chain management books focus on logistics, operations management, and purchasing. Sanders provides supply chain managers with a completely unique approach, presenting SCM from a balanced, integrative, and business-oriented viewpoint. Rather than examining SCM as an offshoot of...

Preface -- Introduction to supply chain management -- Supply chain strategy -- Network and system design -- Marketing -- Operations management -- Sourcing -- Logistics -- Forecasting and demand planning -- Inventory management -- Lean systems and six-sigma quality -- Supply chain relationship...