5th ed — New Jersey: Pearson Education, 2013. — 529 p. — ISBN: 9780132743952The book has grown from a course on supply chain management taught to second-year
M.B.A. students at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. The goal
of this class was to cover not only high-level supply chain strategy and concepts, but also to
give students a solid understanding of the analytical tools necessary to solve supply chain
problems. With this class goal in mind, our objective was to create a book that would develop
an understanding of the following key areas and their interrelationships:
The strategic role of a supply chain
The key strategic drivers of supply chain performance
Analytic methodologies for supply chain analysis
