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This book - officially sponsored by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Company - contains a multi-faceted, multi-media set of products to serve as a definitive guide and toolset for executives who must build and operate global supply chain networks in a period of systemic, extreme change. The book brings together an unprecedented array of contributions from world experts in the new supply chain science of volatility management. It includes strategic content and discussion as well as executive templates for high-level decision making and multi-enterprise action-taking. An experiential web-based supply chain risk simulation will accompany the book. The simulation energizes and empowers teams online, enabling them to explore supply chain network options and decision-making. It is designed to address the volatile nature of supply chains today, allowing users to test multiple approaches to managing ongoing sets of supply chain upheavals and assess their outcomes.

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ISBN:

9780415873550

Pages:

312 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

458318

Publisher:

Routledge

Published:

21/10/2010

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About Lisa H. Harrington and Sandor Boyson and Thomas M. Corsi

Lisa H. Harrington is president of the lharrington group, a strategic consulting and marketing communication services firm focused on supply chain management, warehousing and related technology. She also is a senior research fellow and adjunct professor at the Supply Chain Management Center, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Dr. Sandor Boyson has over twenty-five years of global supply chain management consulting experience in the business and public sectors. He is the co-author (with Dr. Corsi and Ms. Harrington) of two books on Supply Chain Management, including In Real Time: Managing the New Supply Chain (Praeger, 2004). Professor Boyson is founding Co-Director of the Robert H. Smith School's Supply Chain Management Center. Dr. Thomas M. Corsi is Michelle E. Smith Professor of Logistics at the Robert H. Smith School of Business and founding Co-Director of Smith's Supply Chain Management Center. He has authored three books: The Economic Effects of Surface Freight Deregulation (Brookings, 1990), and (with Dr. Boyson and Ms. Harrington) Logistics and the Extended Enterprise: Benchmarks and Best Practices for the Manufacturing Professional (Wiley, 1999).