Strategic Supply Chain Management

<p>This book analyses the development of strategic supply chain modelling and its role in optimising decision-making in business, in relation to advances in technology and increased demand due to globalisation. The authors examine existing supply chain models in order to create a conceptual framework for a new diagnostic tool, offering a useful, realistic and meaningful contribution to the field, both theoretically and practically. Using the real-life context of a major international automobile manufacturer, this study satisfies the demand from industry for guidance in the complex world of strategic supply chain modeling in the growing logistics business sector. Readers of <i>Strategic Supply Chain Management </i>will find this work instructive and informative, and it will be of particular interest to students, researchers and policy-makers in the supply chain management industry.</p>