Supply chain

covering multiple disciplines and employing many quantitative and qualitative tools. Within the last few years, several textbooks on supply chain have arrived on the market providing both managerial overviews and detailed technical treatments. For examples of managerial introductions to supply chain see Copacino (1997), Fine (1998) and Handfield & Nichols (1998), and for logistics texts see Lambert, Stock, Ellram, & Stockdale (1997) and Ballou (1998). For more technical, model-based treatments see Silver et al. (1998) and Simchi-Levi, Kaminsky, & Simchi-Levi (1998). Tayur, Magazine, & Ganeshan (1999) is an extensive collection of research papers while Johnson & Pyke (2000b) is a collection papers on teaching supply chain management. Also, there are several casebooks that give emphasis to global management issues including Taylor (1997), Flaherty (1996), and Dornier, Ernst, Fender, & Kouvelis (1998). Introductory articles include Cooper, Lambert, & Pagh (1997b), Davis (1993), Johnson (1998a), and Lee & Billington (1992). To help order our discussion, we have divided supply chain management into twelve areas.4 We identified these twelve areas from our own experience teaching and researching supply chain management, from analysis of syllabi and research papers on supply chain, and from our discussions with managers. Each area represents a supply chain issue facing the firm. For any particular problem or issue, managers may apply analysis or decision support tools. For…