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Supply Chain Management: Text And Cases is a comprehensive and detailed account on the dynamics of supply chain management. Summary Of The Book Supply Chain Management refers to the management of the connecting links between channels/nodes involved in the supply of goods and services required for use by the end customers in the chain. It covers all the steps from transportation to storage of all three types of materials, raw materials, work-in-process and finished product, to their supply to the end users. Supply Chain Management: Text And Cases is a book on the theoretical concepts and the practical applications of the supply chain management system. There are five parts to the book, beginning with Introduction to Supply Chain Management. This part contains sections titled The Role of the Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Strategy and Performance Measures, and Outsourcing: Make versus Buy. This is followed by Management Of Flow Of Materials in A Supply Chain and includes topics like Transportation, Network Design, Operations and Inventory Management. Managing Information Flow In Supply Chains is the next unit with topics like Demand Forecasting and Role of Information Technology in Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Innovations includes topics like Restructuring and/or Integration of a Supply Chain. The book also provides Case Studies On Supply Chain Management companies like APR Limited, Kurlon Limited, Subhiksha and Dalmia Cement, and Power Equipments (India) Ltd). The book is an integration of concepts and their applications, with special focus on innovations. The book is blessed with not only the knowledge, but also the personal experience of the author. It is meant not only for students, but also for practitioners. The author has employed state-of-the-art knowledge of the concept with the help of several examples and with a complete section devoted to how firms in competitive markets can employ Supply Chain Management to improve their efficiency. Supply Chain Management: Text And Cases cites interviews with top professionals in the field and has small projects given at the end of each chapter to enhance the comprehension of the subject in the real-world context. Six pages in the book are devoted fully to summarising all the key concepts, equations and definitions in the book. The book comes complete with a manual for the instructors containing additional information, explanations and notes on case studies. Quizzes, Flash Cards and MCQs are also part of the book. About Janat Shah Janat Shah is a professor and author. He has written another book called Operation Research In Indian Steel Industry. Janat Shah is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur, in the Department of Operation and Information Systems and an FPM in the Operation Management department at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He completed his Mechanical Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.