This book is targeted toward an academic as well as a practitioner audience. On the academic side, it should be appropriate for B.Com and MBA students, engineering master?s students, and senior undergraduate students interested in supply chain management and logistics. It should also serve as a suitable reference for both concepts as well as methodola ogy for practitioners in consulting and industry. The book has grown from a course on supply chain management taught to second- year MBA students at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. The goal of this class was to cover not only high-level supply chain strategy and concepts but also to give students a solid understanding of the analytical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems.