| Designing and Managing the Supply Chain w/ Student CD-Rom | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Simchi-levi, Philip Kaminsky, Edith Simchi-levi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 54350
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 8.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0072845538
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780072845532
ASIN: 0072845538
Publication Date: October 11, 2002
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Product Description
Supply chain management, both in industry and in academia, has grown rapidly over the past several years mainly due to an increase in corporate goals of reducing manufacturing costs and the savings that come from planning and managing the supply chain effectively. Most textbooks do not include models and decision support systems robust enough for industry. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Cases, 2/e by Simchi-Levy, Kaminsky and Simchi-Levi discusses the problems, models and concepts derived from issues related to effective supply chain management. This text is suitable for both academic study and practicing professionals. While many core supply chain management issues are interrelated, the authors have tried to make each chapter as self-contained as possible so that the reader can refer directly to chapters covering topics of interest. Each chapter utilizes case studies and numerous examples. Mathematical and technical sections can be skipped without loss of continuity. The accompanying CD-ROM also provides two simulations, the Computerized Beer Game and the Risk Pool Game and a computerized tool, new to this edition, for developing and executing supply chain contracts. These packages help illustrate many of the concepts discussed.
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 If you can have 1 supplychain book on an island, this is it July 14, 2008
I bought this book 2 years ago based on reviews, along with a few other SC books, out of personal interest and my career needs to build depth in this field.
Dr. Simchi-levi's book is fantastic in that it is the ONLY book where a novice, mid-career, or a dept head can all benefit from reading it. The way he writes the book is so straightforward, balancing applicable usage and concepts and theory. Most SC books are either too light on the applicability, or too light on the theories. Not this book.
My latest role had me running the entire country supplychain. We shipped >100m units / year directly to customers in an online division. I find myself picking this book out of my shelf and reading it casually over coffee and it still brings refreshing perspectives.
Read it in 10 min sessions, 4 hour sessions, or use it in school. No other book are as flexible and as valuable than this one. If your work involves SC (and today's global economy is more so than ever), you should invest in yourself with this book.
I gained so much respect for Dr. Simchi-Levi from reading his book that I flew to Shanghai to meet him last year at a forum. Buy the book, read it (it's compact, even hardcover), enjoy it, and benefit from it.
 A good choice for a beginning text July 5, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have this book as my text in the Business program at the University of Phoenix. I am not a supply chain manager and do not aspire to be, but it is a required course. Some of the math is a bit daunting (the phrase "using simple calculus" is an oxymoron to many) but even without knowing calculus the case studies and discussions convey the fundamentals effectively.
Visually, the book is also good, with a layout and graphic design that makes reading easier and not at all a strain on the eyes. That might not seem important when you are shopping for a text, but when you are reading the third chapter of the day sometime between supper and midnight, it will!
Outstanding Phenomenon May 10, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Words can not explain how much this book is valuable. Its pragmatic approach to supply chain is wonderful. I am sure any reader will have the same idea after reading this book. I really appreciate this great job. Special thanks to the authors.
Finally something you can read and enjoy May 9, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book one of the rarest ocasions in SCM field when you read a book and enjoy its contents to the fullest. I agree with ine of the other reviewers that this is one of the BEST books about SCM. I highly recomend it as one of MUST have SCM books.
 I needed something more concise February 10, 2003
7 out of 15 found this review helpful
Good as a text book for an MBA program but I needed something concise and clear. I'll keep looking
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