This book analyses the development of strategic supply chain modelling
and its role in optimising decision-making in business, in relation to
advances in technology and increased demand due to globalisation. The
authors examine existing supply chain models in order to create a
conceptual framework for a new diagnostic tool, offering a useful,
realistic and meaningful contribution to the field, both theoretically
and practically. Using the real-life context of a major international
automobile manufacturer, this study satisfies the demand from industry
for guidance in the complex world of strategic supply chain modeling in
the growing logistics business sector. Readers of Strategic Supply
Chain Management will find this work instructive and informative, and
it will be of particular interest to students, researchers and
policy-makers in the supply chain management industry.