Supply Chains and Total Product Systems A Reader [Hardcover]

• Demonstrates the strategic relevance of managing supply chains and supply networks to organizational performance and to a range of business functions, including finance, design, production, environmental management, information systems, and marketing.
  
• Considers sustainable supply chain management across the service, manufacturing and process sectors.
  
• Reflects the radical changes in organizational beliefs, practices and processes that are necessary for a shift to supply chain management in contemporary, global, competitive conditions.
  
• Considers particular issues and challenges for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises.
  
• Contains readings that are interdisciplinary and international in focus.

Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues.

Introduction.

From Supply Chains to Total Production Systems. (Ed Rhodes).

Supply Chain Management: Relationships, Chains and Networks. (Christine M. Harland).

Globalisation and Unequalisation: What Can Be Learnt from Value Chain Analysis? (Raphael Kaplinsky).

Lean Production and the Toyota Production System – Or, the Case of the Forgotten Production Concepts. (Ian Hampson).

Lean Production in a Changing Competitive World: A Japanese Perspective. (Hiroshi Katayama and David Bennett).

Industrial Relations Implications in US Grocery Distribution. (John Lund and Christopher Wright).

Intangibles: The Soft Side of Innovation: Pim den Hertog, Rob Bilderbeek and Sven Maltha.

The Environmentls.