Content: 1. Building a strategic framework to analyze supply chains -- Understanding the supply chain -- Supply chain performance : achieving strategic fit and scope -- Supply chain drivers and obstacles -- Planning demands and supply chain: Demand forecasting in a supply chain -- Aggregate planning in a supply chain -- Planning supply and demand in a supply chain: managing predictable variability -- 3. Planning and managing inventories in a supply chain: Managing economies of scale in a supply chain: cycle inventory -- Managing uncertainty in a supply chain: safety inventory -- Determining optimal level of product availability -- 4. Transportation, network design, and information technology in a supply chain: Transportation in a supply chain -- Facility decisions: network design in a supply chain -- Information technology in a supply chain -- 5. Coordinating a supply chain and the role of E-Business: Coordinating in a supply chain -- E-Business and the supply chain --