Designed as a professional reference as well as a graduate-level text, this handbook describes and assesses the field, identifying key developments and their significance, looking at this very broad field from multiple perspectives, and using the advice of top experts and contributors. It covers strategies, assessing the global environment, and management of value and customer service, demand, knowledge, and process. It describes such functions as marketing and sales, product management, operations, integrated logistics, inventory, transportation, warehousing, supply, and personnel, and covers resource management in the Lean Supply Chain, finance, risk management, interpretation systems, relationship management, logistics outsourcing, sourcing, negotiating, innovation, security, change management and diagnosis. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)