Agribusiness Supply Chain Management - Chandrasekaran, N.; Raghuram, G.
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This book introduces the complexity and importance of supply chain management within businesses handling agricultural products. Topics include major drivers, facility, inventory, and transportation management, sourcing decisions such as processed or farm fresh, input and output challenges, processors, challenges of managing perishables, infrastructure, retailing, quality, information technology, risk strategies, financials, direct trading verses auction, and navigating relevant government policies. The book includes numerous case studies that span a wide range of issues and industries.

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This book introduces the complexity and importance of supply chain management within businesses handling agricultural products. Topics include major drivers, facility, inventory, and transportation management, sourcing decisions such as processed or farm fresh, input and output challenges, processors, challenges of managing perishables, infrastructure, retailing, quality, information technology, risk strategies, financials, direct trading verses auction, and navigating relevant government policies. The book includes numerous case studies that span a wide range of issues and industries.
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N. Chandrasekaran holds a PhD in financial management (1990) from Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), University of Madras, and has about 25 years of corporate experience in areas relating to supply chain management, corporate planning, strategic management, mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring and has also worked with start-ups. He is also a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) awarded by Association of Operations Management, USA. He is currently with Take Solutions Ltd as vice president, Corporate Affairs. He is also director, Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Chennai. Dr. Chandrasekaran has worked for agro-based business for organizations like National Dairy Development Board, leading groups engaged in the business of sugar manufacture, and with IT and knowledge-based companies as head of strategy, Human Resources Management and Policy and Systems. He has published a number of articles in leading professional journals and brought out a first annual publication named Indian Supply Chain Network. He has authored a book Supply Chain Management published by Oxford University Press India in 2010. He is also coauthor of Strategic Management, published by Oxford University Press India in 2011. He led a team of four researchers on a project "Ethical Supply Chain Management in India," which was later published by Shroff Publishers in 2012.G. Raghuram has been a faculty member at IIM Ahmedabad since 1985. He is the dean (Faculty) since September 2013. He was the vice chancellor of the Indian Maritime University from July 2012 to March 2013 and was the Indian Railways Chair Professor from January 2008 to August 2010. He specializes in infrastructure and transport systems and logistics and supply chain management. He con-ducts research on the railway, port, shipping, aviation and road sectors. He has published over 30 refereed papers in journals and written over 140 case studies. His fifth coauthored book is in the press now. He was awarded "Academician of the Year" by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in 2012. He is a fellow of the Operational Research Society of India, and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He has teaching experience at universities in India, the U.S., Canada, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Tanzania and the UAE. He has offered consultancy services to over 100 organisations including multilateral agencies. He is on the board of eight companies in the fields of infra-structure and logistics. He has served on various government policy making and advisory committees for the Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Shipping, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Planning Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General and the Cabinet Secretariat. Prof. Raghuram has a BTech degree from IIT, Madras; a postgraduate diploma in management from IIM, Ahmedabad; and a PhD from Northwestern University, U.S.