Supply Chains: A Manager's Guide

Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank Kevin Dick, Jill Dyche, Dirk Riehle, and Jill Mizano for their thoughtful and constructive reviews of this book. I am especially grateful to Kevin, whose exceptional grasp of economics and information technology was of great help to me in bridging the gap between these two disciplines. I am also grateful to John Fuller, Mary O'Brien, Tyrrell Albaugh, and the rest of the team at Addison-Wesley, together with freelance copy editor Carol Noble, for taking such good care of the book at each stage of its development. But my deepest appreciation, as always, goes to my wife, Nina. She not only supported and encouraged me throughout the two-year writing effort, she drew on her own outstanding skills as a writer and business ...