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No more competition among individual organizations, rather competition in today´s competitive business environment must be among the supply chain in order to stay competitive and sustain competitive position. Supply chain management practices requires strategic supplier partnership, customers relationship, quality of information sharing, key business process integration internally and externally across the supply chain, risk and reward sharing, flexibility of operations, accessibility of physical, information and financial flow facilities. This book will have paramount importance for the readers who wants to manage their supply chain and for researchers in the field and related subject area such as transportation management, logistics management, procurement and operations management.

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Nurizman Jebril Negawo lecturer at Bahir Dar University,Qualification: BA in purchasing & supply management, MBA and currently pursuing Ph.D at Punjabi University India

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