Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Supply chain strategy -- The board-executive imperative : involving boards and senior executives in supply chain / Usman GHANI, University of Texas at Dallas, USA -- Supply chain strategy : designing effective supply chains / Vivek Sehgal, GT Nexus, Inc, USA -- Success factors for supply chain transformations -- Business transformations : inevitable changes of the era / Mohsen Rajabi, Tehran University, Iran, Alireza Bolhari, Tehran University, Iran -- Supply chain segmentation : concept & best practice transformation framework / Ehap Sabri, University of Texas at Dallas & JDA Software, USA -- Mastering change management for successful supply chain transformation / Ehap Sabri, University of Texas at Dallas, USA, Likhit Verma, Ericsson Inc, USA -- Supply chain performance measurement and organizational alignment / Ehap Sabri, JDA software, USA, Rohan Vishwasrao, JDA software, USA -- Recipe for success for optimizing certain supply chain processes -- Sales and operations management in contemporary organizations / Salim Shaikh, JDA software, JDA -- Virtual organization of supply chains / Zlatko Nedelko, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Vojko / Potocan, University of Maribor, Slovenia -- Key enablers for supply chain optimization -- Business transformation : real-time collaboration and visibility / Srinivasan Muthusrinivasan, JDA Software, USA -- Managing purchasing with different e-procurement solutions / Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, Richard W. Eglese, Lancaster University Management School, UK -- Towards construction supply chain sustainability : a satisficing approach for multi-actor greenhouse gas reduction / Niall P Dunphy, University College Cork, Ireland, John E Morrissey, Liverpool John Moores University, UK -- About the contributors -- Index.