Supply Chain Management: Strategies and Evaluation

Contents: Preface. 1. Basics in supply chain management. 2. Strategies for supply chain. 3. Models in supply chain. 4. Evaluation of supply chain efficiency. 5. Evaluation of supply chain strategic awareness. 6. Evaluations of supply chain strategies. Bibliography. 

In recent times, the concept of Supply Chain Management (SCM) has drawn the attention of both academicians as well as practitioners. The notion which was originally introduce by the consultants during 1980s, gradually caught the attention of practitioners. A typical supply chain is a network of materials, information and services that are linked with the characteristics of supply, transformation and demand. The question that remains with the advantage. One of the ways of addressing such issues is through proper implementation of SCM strategy. Hence, implementation requires prudent and focused ways of selecting proper strategies.

Several questions arise in the context of strategic issues in SCM. Some of these issues are: How an organization implements collaboration as well as integration strategies for effective implementation of SCM? What are the basic and important factors to be considered while selecting suppliers? What is the importance of techniques while evaluating a strategy?

Therefore, an attempt has been made to address the way of evaluating different strategies utilizing Data Envelopment analysis (DEA) Ridit analysis Grey relational analysis and Fuzzy approach etc..