Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management by John T Mentzer

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management by John T Mentzer

Identifies twelve drivers of competitive advantage as strategic points managers can use in their companies. This book addresses the roles of the traditional business functions - marketing, sales, logistics, information systems, finance, customer services, and management - in supply chain management.

“This book is an insightful, well-balanced, stimulating SCM Strategy book that clearly tells managers, consultants, as well as educators that the SCM concept is not a fad but a must strategy to gain competitive advantage in today’s dynamic global market placeThere are three major strengths. First, it is an unprecedented interdisciplinary SCM strategy book that explains how companies obtain, maintain, and even enhance competitive advantages based upon a well-laid SCM strategy. Second, it provides readers a unique, well-balanced framework for SCM strategy formulation. Third, it is a valuable contribution in the area of SCM in that it does a good job in explaining such a complicated SCM strategy to readers in such a simple manner.”

-- Soonhong (Hong) Min

"The book will be of use to practicing supply chain managers and academics alike. It is full of examples of companies, where certain supply chain practices work and other did not. It can serve as an excellent supplement to a standard text on supply chains, to introduce students to the problems and issued faced in managing supply chains."

-- Siddharth Mahajan * Book Reviews *

Dr. John T. (Tom) Mentzer is the Harry J. and Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence in Business in the Department of Marketing, Logistics and Transportation at the University of Tennessee. He has written more than 170 papers and articles, which have appeared in the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of MacroMarketing, Industrial Marketing Management, the Journal of Marketing Education, the Columbia Journal of World Business, Research in Marketing, Social Indicators Research, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Materials Management, the Journal of Business Logistics, the Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Journal, the Journal of Business Research, Advances in Business Research, the Journal of Forecasting, the Journal of Business Forecasting, and numerous conference proceedings. He has co-authored five books: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT, SALES FORECASTING MANAGEMENT, SIMULATED PRODUCT SALES FORECASTING, MARKETING TODAY, and READINGS IN MARKETING TODAY and edited the monograph MARKETING EDUCATION SOFTWARE. Dr. Mentzer was recognized in 1996 as one of the five most prolific authors in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and in 1999 as the most prolific author in the Journal of Business Logistics. He was awarded the Academy of Marketing Science Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award in 2001.

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ISBN 13	9780761929086
ISBN 10	0761929088
Title	Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management
Author	John T Mentzer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2004-06-24
Number of pages	304
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.