Supply Chain Management
Contents: 1. Basics of supply chain management/Rohit Kumar Mishra. 2. Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)/R. Balajivignesh. 3. E-healthcare: transforming hospital supply chain/G.V.R.K. Acharyulu. 4. Information technology in supply chain management/V.B. Narsimha. 5. Developing supply chain competencies/Kishore Kumar Morya. 6. E-choupal: the V2I model of supply chain management/Priya Deshpande and G. Deepika. 7. Supply chain management operations under sales tax/value added tax/T. Mathew. 8. Efficiency of supply chain: a study of food sector in India/S.R. Subba Rao and G. Chamundeshwari. 9. E-payments enabling e-financial supply chain/Shital Jhunjhunwala. 10. Radio frequency identification (RFID): redefining the global pharma value chain/Sudeep Kumar Mandhania. 11. Protein biosynthesis based bio-mimetic framework of supply chain management/C.N. Sundaresan and N. Sivakumar. 12. Supply chain management practices in pharmaceutical industry/B. Krishna Reddy and T. Sudha. 13. Contemporary issues in supply chain management/Vaishali Agarwal. 14. Reinventing the supply chain/Alok Jha and P. Sailaja. 15. Promotional strategies of mobile telephone service providers/Mihir Dash and M. Viswanathiah. 16. Development of inventory control models/Koilakuntla Maddulety. 17. Green logistics/K.J. Paulose. 18. Role of ethics in supply chain management/Kalavathi V. 19. Supply chain management of carpet industry in Erode district, Tamil Nadu/K. Guruswamy. 20. Modern ERP systems vis-a-vis orientations in modern manufacturing and operations/P.O. Subash. 21. Government procurement in supply chain management/Deepthi B.S. 22. Outsourcing in supply chain management/Bhavya Singh. 23. Supply chain management: an integrated approach/A. Duraikannan, B.L. Sairam Subramaniam and S. Baskaran. 24. Technical training of employees and supply chain management/A. Azad and K. Narashiman. 25. Turning returns management into a competitive advantage/S. Chandrasekaran, Ashvini Ravi and G. Nirmala. 26. Logistics management in central public enterprises in India/R.K. Mishra. 27. Role of E-business in supply chain management/J. Suresh Reddy. 28. Value stream mapping as a tool of effective supply chain management/Manimala K. Index.
"Competitive environment of modern times is forcing the firms to shift focus from inside the corporate walls to collaboration with outside trading partners. Enhanced communication technology has redefined how businesses work together, raise customers\' expectations and place new demands on supply chain performance. Internet has allowed companies to come up with highly innovative solutions that accelerate the widespread adoption of core principles of supply chain management. Companies that make use of e-business to redefine supply chain integration achieve significant increase in their efficiency and competitive edge over their competitors. The next few years will see an explosion of e-enabled supply chain management as visionary companies develop new paradigms of e-business for the future.
This book focuses on concepts, principles and real life experiences which improve understanding of the Supply Chain Management (SCM). Available information has been analysed and synthesised across many disciplines, such as purchase and supply management, marketing, organisational dynamics, logistic and transportation management, information technology, strategic management, and operations management.
The book is designed to contribute to the existing body of literature available on supply chain management. It consists of 28 papers authored by scholars in the area. This work, which is replete with new concepts and practices, will commend itself to all categories of readers, particularly academicians, researchers and students of management, economics and commerce." (jacket)
