Primary Navigation
Book Contents Navigation
Book Cover
1. What is a Supply Chain and Why Should You Care?
Ben Neve
2. Creating Value for Customers
Francois Carrier
3. The Human Link: The Critical Role of Soft Skills in Supply Chain Management
Hugo Decampos
4. Purchasing: Finding and Working with Suppliers
5. Sustainable Business: Connecting People, Planet, and Profit
Shane Schvaneveldt
6. Sustainability in Supply Chain Management
7. Good Business Decisions Start With Data
8. Planning Ahead
Evan Barlow
9. Planning Inventory
10. Business Process Management
11. Lean Thinking: Reducing Waste, Improving Flow
Evan Barlow and Shane Schvaneveldt
12. Creating Quality for the Customer
13. Getting Products to Customers
14. Managing Risks
15. Bringing it all together
Acknowledgements
Previous/next navigation
The Business Behind the Business: An Introduction to Supply Chain Management Copyright © 2025 by Evan Barlow, Francois Carrier, Hugo DeCampos, Benjamin Neve, and Shane Schvaneveldt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.