Designing and Managing the Supply Chain‎,‎ 3/e provides state‎-of‎-the‎-art models‎,‎ concepts‎,‎ and solution methods that are important for the design‎,‎ control‎,‎ operation‎,‎ and management of supply chain systems‎.‎ In particular‎,‎ the authors attempt to convey the intuition behind many key supply chain concepts and to provide simple techniques that can be used to analyze various aspects of the supply chain‎.‎ Topical coverage reflects the authors‎'‎ desire to introduce students to those aspects of supply chain management that are critical to the success of a business‎.‎ Although many essential supply chain management issues are interrelated‎,‎ the authors strive to make each chapter as self‎-contained as possible‎,‎ so that the reader can refer directly to chapters covering topics of interest‎.‎ Each chapter utilizes numerous case studies and examples‎,‎ and mathematical and technical sections can be skipped without loss of continuity‎.‎ The 3rd edition represents a substantial revision‎.‎ While the structure and philosophy were kept intact‎,‎ the authors placed an increasing importance on finding or developing effective frameworks that illustrate many important supply chain issues‎.‎ At the same time‎,‎ motivated by new developments in industry‎,‎ they added material on a variety of topics new to the book while increasing the coverage of others‎.‎