In today's environment of tight budgets and even tighter turnarounds, effective supply-chain management has become a core business requirement. Managing the Supply Chain adapts the number one supply-chain book on the college market to examine how professionals can consistently turn supply-chain strategy into a competitive advantage. The book provides a professional audience with state-of-the-art concepts that are important for the design, control, operation, and management of supply chain systems. In particular, the authors attempt to convey the intuition behind many key supply chain concepts and to provide simple approaches that can be used to analyze various aspects of the supply chain. "In the last few years, supply chain management has become the subject of business columns as well as of interest to CEOs and CFOs, not only to logistics professionals and academics. For an in depth understanding of the concepts behind this important and complex topic, this well-written book provides an excellent introduction. The concise explanations and numerous examples allow readers to better appreciate the important trade-offs and opportunities in the supply chain."