Financial Times Prentice Hall,.Supply Chain Redesign.[2002.0130603120].pdf

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Supply
Chain
Redesign
Transforming Supply Chains into
Integrated Value Systems
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Supply
Chain
Redesign
Transforming Supply Chains into
Integrated Value Systems
Robert B. Handfield
Bank of America University Distinguished Professor
of Supply Chain Management and
Director, Supply Chain Resource Consortium
College of Management
North Carolina State University
Ernest L. Nichols, Jr.
Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management
Fogelman College of Business and Economics and
Director, Center for Supply Chain Management
FedEx Technology Institute
The University of Memphis
Prentice Hall PTR
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458

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