Building a Responsive and Flexible Supply Chain

This book identifies accounting-based management control system practices for managing integrated and flexible supply chains and increasing customer satisfaction. It further explores how a company can enhance its supply chain integration. The book considers the effects of allocating supply chain's joint profit and incentive alignment as managerial instruments to facilitate integration and cooperation among partners. Furthermore, the book examines how to flexibly manage integrated supply chains from the perspectives of the product/service lifecycle, partner switching, and strategic flexibility. It also examines the use of management accounting systems to improve customer satisfaction in supply chains. Management accounting practices examined in the book involve balanced scorecard, switching cost, target costing, value-based pricing, target-pricing, and quality costing.

The book also investigates the different types of supply chains: fabless supply chains, an inter-firm network comprising of parts suppliers and assemblers, non-profit supply chains.

Sample Chapter(s)
Chapter 1: Research Framework

Contents:

• Research Framework
• New-Product Launch Strategy in Supply Chains
• Flexible Supply Chain Management
• Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard for Customer Satisfaction
• Fabless Supply Chains Management
• Profit Allocation between Assemblers and Parts Suppliers: A Normative Perspective
• Management of Supply Chains Fulfilling the Demand of Mature Goods
• Cost Management in Supply Chains from a Life Cycle Perspective
• Supply Chain Quality Management
• Management of Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Supply Chains: Addressing Ways to Raise Funds

Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students interested in supply chain management.
Key Features:

• Readers can learn the best practices to use management accounting system to improve customer satisfication in supply chains
• Readers can learn how to practice supply chain management more effectively
• Readers can better understand how to enhance partnerships and flexibly manage supply chain