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Summary: Supply Chain Consultant
Review: "The book provides a comprehensive overview of supply chain management, from network design and inventory considerations, to suppy chain integration and strategic alliances. Numerous case studies provide additional insight. This is an excellent resource for all logistics professionals."
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Summary: Supply Chain Consultant
Review: "The book provides a comprehensive overview of supply chain management, from network design and inventory considerations, to suppy chain integration and strategic alliances. Numerous case studies provide additional insight. This is an excellent resource for all logistics professionals."
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Summary: Could be better, not quantitative
Review: Although this book has some good case histories I found the mathematics and quantitative analysis very weak. Equations are just pulled from the blue and put down with no explanation of how they are derived or their limitations. The authors spend a great deal of time describing in full detail the case histories. It took me a long time to get through the many pages of the Barilla pasta company story -- even though I am a pasta lover. From a non-quantitative view the book is good. I did not try the CD with the beer game supplied. I wish that maybe the authors will consider a second edition where they are more careful with the mathematics and explain the quantitative aspects of supply chains more carefully. As a PhD scientist I am curious on how the authors derived some of their analytical expresssions.
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Summary: This is an interesting, clear, useful and insightful book.
Review: As a first-time university instructor in this subject (Business Logistics/Supply Chain Management), I found the book and accompanying software, overhead transparencies and other materials to be very "user-friendly". There are very few wasted words or unnecessary details and facts in the book. Instead, the insights gained from research have been presented with clarity and simplicity, easily understandable even to the non-specialist, and enhanced by interesting and relevant examples and case studies. It is an excellent book for both academics and practitioners.
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Summary: Major Bernie Boucher, United States Army
Review: As far as Dr. Simchi-Levi's book, I try to stay on top of the latest updates in regards to supply chain management and attend supply chain management seminars and classes on a regular basis. I've found that the text is state of the art and is at the cutting edge in presenting the key "Best Practices" associated with logistics today. The use of theory and cases is a great combination in getting the key concepts across. I have used it several times already in implementing real world logistical solutions in support of the U.S. Military worldwide. Bottom line . . . Any logistician who considers themselves a true professional and desires to be at the forefront of logistics today must add this book to their personal collection.
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Summary: Major Bernie Boucher, United States Army
Review: As far as Dr. Simchi-Levi's book, I try to stay on top of the latest updates in regards to supply chain management and attend supply chain management seminars and classes on a regular basis. I've found that the text is state of the art and is at the cutting edge in presenting the key "Best Practices" associated with logistics today. The use of theory and cases is a great combination in getting the key concepts across. I have used it several times already in implementing real world logistical solutions in support of the U.S. Military worldwide. Bottom line . . . Any logistician who considers themselves a true professional and desires to be at the forefront of logistics today must add this book to their personal collection.
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Summary: I needed something more concise
Review: Good as a text book for an MBA program but I needed something concise and clear. I'll keep looking
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Summary: Semih O. - Industrial Eng. student , Sakarya University (TR)
Review: I am an undergraduate student in SAU(...).It is a really good book for students trying to understand supply chain concept.It is very useful and well organized book.I also liked case studies in it.Any student studying in this topic will learn and take useful information from this book...
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Summary: Probably the best!
Review: I am and have been consulting in supply chain and logistics management for four years; worked in hands-on rolls for 15 years in Europe, the US and Australia and I also lecture at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. In the past 12 months I have acquired about 14 books on the subject. This book is probably the best. It takes a no nonsense approach to the significant issues facing logistics professionals, as the preface says, the book is written to serve M.B.A, B.S. and M.S. students and as a reference for consultants, professionals and teachers. It manages all this admirably and contains excellent cases and a couple of supply "games" that are an excellent resource. Given the target market, the quantitative material is more than adequate - practioners want solutions that work, for the most part, there not terribly interested in "the mechanics" of the math, just the answer. With the powerful hardware and software available today, readers don't have to understand the "mechanics", just the inputs and what to do the outcomes. This book will give them just that. I commend this book to any practioner, consultant, teacher or student.
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Summary: Perhaps the best textbook on SCM so far
Review: I used the book in my MBA courses. The best textbook on SCM so far. It provides an excelllent overview on SCM issues. Chapters 3-6 are the best. The book contains many classical cases and most chapters start with "real world' problems which help readers understand what the objectives of the respective chapters are. It is well organized. The pooling game is excellent! In the new edition, the authors may consider to revise/correct Chapter 3, and spend more space on postponement strategies. Outsourcing of manufacturing should be enhanced as well (use the HBR article's framework). The impact of e-commerce on SCM is to be inlcuded as well. It would be ideal if the Beer Game can be played by several people on the net. Currently, it is person-to-computer and a blackbox.
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