The Profitable Supply Chain provides a first-principles approach to understanding the drivers of today's supply chains. Targeted at practitioners and students, the book describes concepts, methods, metrics, and process steps for improving performance. Practitioners will be specially interested in the discussions on the impact of external factors on demand, modifying network routings in response to rising fuel prices, a framework for identifying issues and tracking action, and financial measures to track performance. Where necessary, spreadsheet functions for performing calculations have been provided.