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Chapter 13 Supply chain planning and control 405<br />

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If you were the owner of a small local retail shop, what criteria would you use to select suppliers for the goods<br />

which you wish to stock in your shop? Visit three shops which are local to you and ask the owners how they<br />

select their suppliers. In what way were their answers different from what you thought they might be?<br />

Visit a C2C auction site (for example eBay) and analyse the function of the site in terms of the way it facilitates<br />

transactions. What does such a site have to get right to be successful?<br />

Selected further reading<br />

Andersen, M. and Skjoett-Larsen, T. (2009) Corporate social<br />

responsibility in global supply chains, Supply Chain<br />

Management: An International Journal, vol. 14, issue 2,<br />

75–86. A good review of the topic.<br />

Christopher, M. (2004) Logistics and Supply Chain Management:<br />

Creating Value-adding Networks, Financial Times<br />

Prentice Hall, Harlow. Updated version of a classic that<br />

gives a comprehensive treatment on supply chain management<br />

from a distribution perspective by one of the gurus<br />

of supply chain management.<br />

Fisher, M.L. (1997) What is the right supply chain for<br />

your product?, Harvard Business Review, vol. 75, no. 2.<br />

A particularly influential article that explores the issue of<br />

how supply chains are not all the same.<br />

Green, K.W. Jr, Whitten, D. and Inman, R.A. (2008) The<br />

impact of logistics performance on organizational performance<br />

in a supply chain context, Supply Chain Management:<br />

An International Journal, vol. 13, issue 4, 317–27. What it<br />

says in the title.<br />

Harrison, A. and van Hoek, R. (2002) Logistics Management<br />

and Strategy, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Harlow. A<br />

short but readable book that explains many of the modern<br />

ideas in supply chain management including lean supply<br />

chains and agile supply chains.<br />

Useful web sites<br />

www.cio.com/research/scm/edit/012202_scm Site of CIO’s<br />

Supply Chain Management Research Center. Topics include<br />

procurement and fulfilment, with case studies.<br />

www.stanford.edu/group/scforum/ Stanford University’s<br />

supply chain forum. Interesting debate.<br />

www.rfidc.com/ Site of the RFID Centre that contains RFID<br />

demonstrations and articles to download.<br />

www.spychips.com/ Vehemently anti-RFID site. If you want<br />

to understand the nature of some activists’ concern over<br />

RFID, this site provides the arguments.<br />

www.cips.org/ The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and<br />

Supply (CIPS) is an international organization, serving the<br />

purchasing and supply profession and dedicated to promoting<br />

best practice. Some good links.<br />

www.opsman.org Lots of useful stuff.<br />

Now that you have finished reading this chapter, why not visit MyOMLab at<br />

www.myomlab.com where you’ll find more learning resources to help you<br />

make the most of your studies and get a better grade?

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