Product Description
In achieving competitive advantage, nowadays companies are giving the utmost importance to supply chain management. The strategic approaches towards supply chain management help the companies to reduce cost and enhance customer relationship management, which leads to profit. In this era of globalization, managing supply chain challenges has become a difficult task. The successful companies, both Indian and global, have managed their supply chain management strategically. This book has dealt with the strategic issues related to supply chain management and its implications, keeping competition and market dynamics in mind. The book has shown how strategic supply chain management contributes to the overall efficiency of a firm, as effective supply chain management leads to better co-ordination among the strategic partners within as well as outside the organizations leading to cost reduction. Keeping this in view, the book captures some of the strategic approaches in the field of supply chain management, which will provide a framework that will help companies to generate profit.

Contents of the Book
1. Supply Chain Management - Strategic Perspectives
2. Creating Value through Strategic Supply Management
3. Achieving Competitive Advantage through Logistics Function
4. Cost-Effective Supply Chains: Optimizing Product Development through Integrated Design and Sourcing
5. When Your Suppliers Talk Listen
6. Role of ERP in Improving Supply Chain Effectiveness: A Perceptual Study
7. Supply Chain Inventory Planning through Simulation
8. How Efficient is Your Reverse Supply Chain?
9. Riding the Next Wave of Outsourcing
10. E-Supply Chain - Creating New Business Models
11. FedEx: The Cutting Edge
12. Improving Business Performance through Supply Chain Intelligence: An Australian Perspective
13. A Study on Agribusiness Supply Chains and the Intervention of E-Commerce in Indian Agribusiness
14. Kraft Foods: Managing Logistics Challenges in China 15. Index