Supply Chain Management

Avninder Gill and Muhammad Bhatti
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Avninder Gill: Department of Management, School of Business & Economics, Thompson Rivers University, 900 McGill Road, Kamloops, BC, V2C 5N3, Canada

Chapter 28 in Handbook on Business Information Systems, 2010, pp 675-697 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThe present chapter provides an introductory account of supply chain management area by discussing major channels, information flows, and the main drivers and building blocks of supply chains. The chapter also introduces the decision hierarchy, performance metrics, value of information sharing and bull-whip effect in supply chain management. Finally, the paper provides a set-covering supply chain network design approach to supply chain management and illustrates it with the help of a numerical example.

Keywords: Information Systems; Systemization; Business Process Development; Health Care; Industrial Management; Data Management; Semantic Web Services; Knowledge Management; Risk Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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