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I was sceptical when I first noticed this book because I don't consider liquids an important part of the supply chain in our company. This book is a real eye-opener! First Klatch peels back the covers that are "hiding" liquids in so many businesses like ours, and then goes on to show how much more effectively we can handle these products than what we are doing now.
I really liked the "real world" approach in the book. Rather than throwing some theoretical method out there, it shows how we can improve to different levels in our handling of the liquid supply chain, we can go as far as we want at any particular time using the methods described in the book.
Finally, the book understands that there is a real human reader on the other end and uses a lot of examples and stories from business, science, and history to make its point. I'll never think of "silo thinking" the same way again!

As Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl explain in their Preface, the purpose of their book is to help those who read it to "develop an understanding of the following key areas and their interrelationships: the strategic role of a supply chain, the key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and [the] analytical methodologies for supply chain analysis." I think their material will be of greatest interest and value to executives who are now centrally involved in management of larger organizations' supply chains. However, I think their book will also be of substantial benefit to others who are directly or indirectly involved as strategic allies in those supply chains, those who can also help to ensure effective management of them.

Chopra and Meindl carefully organize their material as follows:

Part I: Building a Strategic Framework to Analyze Supply Chains
Part II: Designing the Supply Chain Network
Part III: Planning Demand and Supply in a Supply Chain
Part IV: Planning and Managing Inventories in a Supply Chain
Part V: Designing and Planning Transportation Networks
Part VI: Managing Cross-Functional Drivers in a Supply Chain

I was especially interested in the final part because one of the greatest challenges when establishing and then sustaining an effective supply chain is to take into full account the need to get all participants in proper alignment, especially when cross-functional resources to achieve to achieve mutually-beneficial results. In Part VI, Chopra and Meindl respond to questions such as these:

1. What is the role of sourcing?
2. How to achieve design collaboration?
3. What are the most important "drivers" of pricing and revenue management?
4. What is IT's role?
5. What does effective risk management require?
6. What are the major barriers to effective coordination?
7. How to build strategic partnerships and trust between and among stakeholders?

Many readers (I among them) will also appreciate the provision of a "Summary of Learning Objectives" and "Discussion Questions" at the conclusion of each of the 17 chapters. Credit Chopra and Meindl with fully achieving their objectives when they set out to write this book: To help their readers to understand the strategic role of a supply chain, the key strategic drivers of supply chain performance, and the analytic methodologies for supply chain analysis.

Bravo!

At the outset, I will state that my company reprinted this 1933 gem. Amazon's listing incorrectly states that the volume is 112 pages, it is rather, only 92 pages.

There were families without milk... for three years. The railway workers' families interviewed in this government study, represented one of the more stable and well-to-do segments of society. The facts represented in the numerous tables and family profiles, send a stark wake up call to us today. We certainly can learn from the hardy stock of these depression era pioneers. There is also great benefit in that this study can be reproduced today, using the included survey sheet. Analyzing the similarities between the first four years of the Great Depression and financial circumstances today, at the cusp of a yawning recession, will provide keen insight into what we can expect in the future.

One of the most recent accounts dealing with Ammonites from the Coniacian stage in its type area as well as other major Coniacian localities in France. Extensive figuration of type material, discussions on the validity and variability of Ammonite species that have always been seldom found but nevertheless important for stratigraphy.

I used this book last year for my Systems and Signals course, and I might have a bias opinion on this because the professor for that course was the author of this book, so believe what I say at your own discretion. This book covers the material quite well, it pretty much cuts out the crap and tells you exactly how to solve various problems. I haven't seen a clean cut book like this in a long time. If you're trying to understand concepts and purpose, this isn't your book. If you want to know what to do once you have some grasp of the material, buy this, even if your class doesn't require this particular book.

This book is a wonderful combination of words and pictures that connect the old and new testaments. It explains God's plan in a way that children can comprehend. It takes something that is so big that it sometimes seems too much to relate to a child and makes it clear and easy. The illustrations are very colorful and will grab little ones attention. I highly recommend it to all parents that want to make God's story a real one.

Kevyn deRegt's extraordinary point of view, her unerring eye for perfection and her obvious ability to entertain with a style that few possess make this book essential for anyone who truely wants to entertain and be entertained. Ms. Deregt has fashioned a tome for the annals of hospitality with this sensual, tactile, rich and knowing exploration of worlds apart and in the perfect repast to bring each one home. Andre Baranowski's photography will make your mouth water and send you directly to your travel agent. I hope there will be more in the offing from this talented duo.

Everything Og Mandino writes is excellent! He tells a story while getting his message across. Og is such an inspiration for all of us wanting to invest in ourselves and improve our lives. I would suggest this and all other books written by this author regardless of your path in life.

The techniques in this book really helped become a stronger player. The book is aimed towards more established players but I can see how beginers may benefit too by getting used to these techniques early.

If you like hot real men, NOT air brushed and shaved twinks, then this is your book. This guy has had pictures in Instigator Magazine, so if you like raw nasty pig sex men, then this book is for you! Woff!