内容简介

Supply chain management is a broader concept than logistics and extends beyond the company to all branches in the supply chain, including vendors, customers, carriers, facilitators, and channel intermediaries. An in-depth understanding of supply chain fundamentals is imperative to create real value for the customers. Bowon Kim’s Supply Chain Management examines the issues of effective SCM from the perspective of a dynamic organization, offering theoretical and empirical knowledge to effectively manage this interlocking series of transactions.
Key decision dimensions are analyzed to better appreciate and manage the interrelationships between the critical elements of any SCM strategy: configuration, connection, inventory, and logistics. Each element is reviewed to understand its dynamics and how it interacts with other factors to influence the overall performance of the supply chain.
All linkages are scrutinized, from the optimum characteristics of supply chain coordination to innovative collaboration; the evolution of a supply chain strategy is charted through the course of this unique reference book.

作者简介
Bowon Kim is Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management at the Graduate School of Management, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). He teaches Operations Strategy & SCM and Quantitative Analysis for Management for MBA students, and Optimal Control Theory for PhD students at KAIST.
His research interest is in global supply chain management, technological innovation, and management systems dynamics. He utilizes such research methodologies as optimal control theory and system dynamics simulation as well as case studies for empirical research. He has published academic papers in journals like Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Production and Operations Management, Long Range Planning, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, R&D Management, Omega, Total Quality Management, IIE Transactions, and others.
Bowon received Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and Master of Science from Stanford University.