Editorial Review:
Supply Chain Science describes the collection of people, resources, and activities involved in bringing materials and information together to produce and deliver goods and services to customers. Through illustrations and analogies to everyday life, the text presents the key concepts that underlie the behavior of operations systems in a largely non-mathematical way. The goal of SCS is to provide a concise framework for understanding how complex production and supply chain systems behave, and therefore enable managers/students to have a stronger basis for management decision making. The range of problems faced by managers dealing with supply chains is almost infinite, which is why a scientific approach is needed. Many published volumes provide detailed explanations on how to solve problems in supply chain management, but they can provide answers for only a limited set of situations. Hopp�s Supply Chain Science explains why systems behave as they do, providing the tools and insights to deal effectively with almost any scenario.
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A useful text - supply chains by the numbers 2008-08-19
Hopp gives a good introduction to manufacturing and supply chain dynamics. I found the content to be a well organized review of supply chain flow, inventory and buffer management operations. In some respects, I think of the content as "Supply Chain Mathematics", since much of the book is about measuring and optimizing the performance of a supply chain. As such this book discusses the management of inventory and flow rather than concepts such as selection of suppliers, contractual relationships, etc.
It is worth noting that the book includes a discussion & definition of value chain analysis within a factory, then expands to consider multiple factories and distribution. Hopp includes useful examples from manufacturers as well as service providers, including quite a few areas which would not be typical users of lean techniques.
This is an introductory textbook, with well ordered chapters and discussion problems/questions for each chapter. A helpful outline summarizing the principles is found on the inside front cover of the book.
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