PART IV

Supply Chain Innovations

Chapter 9Supply Chain Integration

Chapter 10Supply Chain Restructuring

Chapter 11Supply Chain Contracts

Chapter 12Agile Supply Chains

Chapter 13Pricing and Revenue Management

Chapter 14Sustainable Supply Chain Management

In Part IV, we focus on supply chain innovations that can help firms in improving the service level and minimizing costs simultaneously. These innovations are meant to steadily improve the performance on both these dimensions.

Chapter 9 focuses on innovation, which will result in better intra-firm and inter-firm integration of supply chains. Through the examples of successful industry-level innovations like VMI, ECR and CPFR relevant implementation issues also have been discussed.

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