Strategic Supply Chain Alignment

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Presents previously unpublished material by logistics professionals, management consultants and academics on next generation thinking about the management of the supply chain. Based on the recently developed strategic alignment model, it shows how companies can reposition their supply chains successfully and offers a link between strategy and implementation. Thirty-eight chapters discuss the market (creating customer value and integrating supply with demand), strategic response (channel strategy, supply chain configuration, and operations and distribution management), cultural capability, leadership, information enablers and drivers, and special interests. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.