Download or read book Essential Microsoft Operations Manager written by Chris Fox and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2006 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of the problem yourself-but that's only if you're lucky. With Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), the diagnosis is done for you. MOM monitors server operations and automatically notifies you of problems by sending an immediate alert to your console, email address, or pager. To help you better understand how MOM works, O'Reilly presents Essential Microsoft Operations Manager. The goal of this comprehensive tutorial is to give first-time MOM administrators a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering MOM 2005. Author Chris Fox, a renowned MOM expert, offers the type of practical, real-world advice that you need to improve the performance of your IT infrastructure. After taking you through the entire process of setting up MOM on the network, the book moves on to more advanced administration issues. It carefully instructs you how to program and automate MOM and the agents that reside on the servers themselves. You'll also learn how to manage the scripts that determine which server agents are relevant to report. By capturing system data, intelligently analyzing it, and then notifying you with a suggested course of action, MOM makes extinguishing fires a breeze. And now, thanks toEssential Microsoft Operations Manager, learning how to use MOM is a breeze, too.

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience written by Danny Hermans and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center, this book focuses on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. For the seasoned professional, it covers the role of the Operations Manager product, the best practices for working with management packs, how to use the reporting feature to simplify managing the product, how to thoroughly troubleshoot, and how to use and install Operations Manager in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud environment.

Download or read book Essential Guide to Operations Management written by David Bamford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a novel treatment of Operations Management. It takes a fresh insight to this increasingly important topic, exploring fundamental principles equally applicable to service and manufacturing situations. The book adapts a strategic stance by providing a framework for effective decision making and is aimed at practising managers who need to design working processes, manage change and make decisions within a strategic framework. The framework and supporting case vignettes allow the practitioner to grasp essential concepts quickly in a range of different operational contexts. "Bamford and Forrester have done an excellent job in creating a concise, salient, and appealing approach - they have captured the essential elements of designing processes, products and work organizations; exploring approaches to operations planning and control; managing change through effective project management and technology transfer; and then managing quality and improvement strategies". —Professor Rob Handfield, Professor of Supply Chain Management, North Carolina State University, USA "This is an excellent concise text that introduces students to all of the key areas - it's an invaluable aid for students in understanding all of the major aspects of operations and their importance to the success of businesses". —Professor Steve Brown, Professor of Management, University of Exeter Business School, University of Exeter, UK "For today's or tomorrow's business leaders this text has well structured invaluable content ready for immediate adoption. Follow the guide, put it into practice, and the rewards will follow". —Mr Vernon Barker, Managing Director, First TransPennine Express, First Group Plc, UK "This book combines technical theory 'book smarts' with real life experience 'street smarts' in a flowing read". —Mr Stephen Oliver, Vice President Marketing & Sales, Vicor Corporation, Boston, USA

Download or read book System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed written by Kerrie Meyler and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007! System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005's focus on individual servers. This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring OpsMgr 2007. You will find detailed information and hands-on experience on topics such as estimating database sizes and designing redundant OpsMgr configurations. You learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up ACS, establishing client monitoring, using and creating synthetic transactions and distributed applications, and developing management packs and reports. Size your OpsMgr databases Architect for redundancy and performance Install or migrate to OpsMgr 2007 Secure OpsMgr Back up OpsMgr components Understand how monitors and rules work Manage different aspects, including ACS, client monitoring, synthetic transactions, and distributed applications Extend OpsMgr Develop management packs and reports CD-ROM includes: Database sizing spreadsheet Utilities, management packs, and reports Microsoft's best practices for rule and monitor targeting and PowerShell Cheat Sheet Live Links--more than 200 hypertext links and references to materials, connectors, sites, and newsgroups related to OpsMgr Contents Introduction 1 Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts 1 Operations Management Basics 11 2 What's New 63 3 Looking Inside OpsMgr 97 Part II Planning and Installation 4 Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment 137 5 Planning Complex Configurations 203 6 Installing Operations Manager 2007 233 7 Migrating to Operations Manager 2007 277 Part III Moving Toward Application-Centered Management 8 Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007 303 9 Installing and Configuring Agents 369 10 Complex Configurations 425 11 Securing Operations Manager 2007 471 Part IV Administering Operations Manager 2007 12 Backup and Recovery 539 13 Administering Management Packs 593 14 Monitoring with Operations Manager 647 Part V Service-Oriented Monitoring 15 Monitoring Audit Collection Services 739 16 Client Monitoring 797 17 ...

Download or read book Essentials of Operations Management written by Nigel Slack and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2018 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the market-leading Operations Management text, this is the ideal book for those wanting a more concise introduction to the subject, focusing on essential core topics, without compromising on the authoritative, clear and highly practical approach that has become the trademark of the authors. Revised and updated to reflect the ever-changing world of operations management, the book is rooted in real-life practice with a wealth of examples and case studies from different sectors and industries around the world. MyLab Operations Management not included. Students, if MyLab Operations Management is a recommended/mandatory component of the course, please ask your instructor for the correct ISBN and course ID. MyLab Operations Management should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Download or read book Essentials of Operations Management written by Scott T. Young and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-02-20 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the major topics and strategies that relate to operations management. Covers “modern” subjects such as human resources in operations, facility location, "green" operations, and the balanced scorecard approach to operations. Includes end-of-chapter projects and exercises, plus review questions and summary points.

Download or read book ESSENTIALS OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT written by AMSHED A. MODI and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing and controlling the process of production and redesigning business operations in the production of goods or services is what Operations Management is all about. This book is a concise volume on all those bare essentials of Operations Management. Authored with a practical approach, the book focuses on applications involved in Operations Management which are used to streamline the systems and functions of any organization. The chapters are well-supported with Cases, Solved Examples, and Numerical Problems. The book is also incorporated with Appendices on the Standard and Normal Distribution Table, the Poisson Distribution Table, and Linear Programming to make the calculations on statistics and mathematics easy. Designed as a text for the undergraduate students of Engineering (Mechanical) and postgraduate students of Management, the book is equally useful as a handy reference for Engineers, Operations Managers and Management Professionals.

Download or read book How to Cheat at Managing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 written by Anthony Piltzecker and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) is a network monitoring tool that provides enterprise-class event and performance management for Windows Server System technologies. MOM's event and performance management tools discover problems before system administrators would ever find them, thereby enabling administrators to lower their costs of operations and simplify management of their Windows Server System infrastructure. MOM can notify system administrators of overloaded processors, depleted memory, or failed network connections affecting their Windows servers long before these problems bother users.Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 delivers open and scalable enterprise-class operational management by providing comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, reporting and trend analysis, and system and application specific knowledge and tasks to improve the manageability of Windows Server System environments, including Windows, Exchange, SQL, IIS, Active Directory etc.* A users guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) enabling a cost reduction and simplification in managing your Windows Server System Infrastructure * Companion Web site for book offers dozens of customized scripts and tools for automating MOM 2005 and many other Windows Server products * There is no other compact resource like this for this core, Microsoft Server product

Download or read book System Center Operations Manager OpsMgr 2007 R2 Unleashed written by Kerrie Meyler and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-the-minute supplement to System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed brings together practical, in-depth information about System Operations Manager 2007, including major enhancements introduced with the R2 release, as well as essential information on other products and technologies OpsMgr integrates with and relies upon. Drawing on their unsurpassed deployment experience, four leading independent OpsMgr experts with a half dozen leading subject matter experts show how to take full advantage of new Unix/Linux cross platform extensions, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 integration, PowerShell extensions, and much more. They also present in-depth coverage of using OpsMgr with virtualization, authoring new management packs, and maximizing availability. A detailed “OpsMgr R2 by Example” appendix presents indispensable tuning and configuration tips for several of OpsMgr R2’s most important management packs. This book also contains the world’s most compre- hensive collection of OpsMgr R2 reference links. Discover and monitor Linux and Unix systems through OpsMgr with the new Cross Platform Extensions Utilize Microsoft’s upgraded management packs and templates for monitoring operating systems, services, and applications Monitor your system with the Health Explorer and new Visio add-in Create OpsMgr 2007 R2 reports and queries utilizing SQL Server 2008 Understand how Windows Server 2008 and OpsMgr integrate Use PowerShell and the OpsMgr Shell to automate common management tasks Efficiently manage virtualized environments (Hyper-V or ESX vCenter) Author your own OpsMgr custom management packs Implement advanced high availability and business continuity management Use targeting to apply the appropriate monitoring to each component Master advanced ACS techniques for noise filtering, access hardening, and auditing

Download or read book Microsoft System Center PowerShell Essentials written by Guruprasad HP and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a Microsoft System Center administrator who manages System Center environments and utilizes the console for management, then this book is ideal for you. This book is also for System Center users who now want to learn to manage systems using PowerShell.

Download or read book Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know written by Vibrant Publishers and published by Vibrant Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After reading this book, you will be able to answer the following questions: I. What is Operations and Supply Chain Management and why is it important? ii. What are the key functions within this field, and how do they interact with one another and the broader business? iii. What are the responsibilities and decisions that managers in each functional area think about? iv. How will disruptions in the Supply Chain impact the business world and our lives going forward? v. What are the practical applications of the knowledge gained around Supply Chain Operations? Have you ever wondered what your peers meant by “Supply Chain” or “Operations”, or why either of these fields matter? What about people that work in these roles – what do they actually do? In Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know these questions will be answered, and more. This practical, yet simple, guide uses a hypothetical company and the consumer product they make, to explain how the various functions within the Supply Chain intertwine and contribute to bring a finished product to life for consumers in the market. You don’t need a management background to understand our story of how new demands, changing preferences, and unforeseen circumstances force this fictional company to adapt in order to survive. By posing questions that Supply Chain Operations Manager’s face, you will start to think like a Supply Chain Operations professional, whether it be in professional or personal applications. You may not be inspired to make a career shift into these areas or chat Supply Chain topics at the dinner table, however, you will gain an understanding and appreciation for how these activities make everyday products and services at our disposal – and why this is increasingly important for companies to pay attention to. About the Series The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.

Download or read book Microsoft Azure IaaS Essentials written by Gethyn Ellis and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for system administrators and other IT professionals who need to both design and implement an Azure-based cloud solution. With the help of this book, you will soon master the basic tasks needed to build a cloud-based solution.

Download or read book Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed written by Kerrie Meyler and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005! Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashedprovides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working. This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience. · Plan your MOM deployment · Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security · Install or upgrade to MOM 2005 · Back up important MOM components · Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs · Work with rules and tune them · Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server · Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs · Develop management packs, reports, and scripts · Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager CD–ROM includes · Microsoft’s MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer · MOM Agent Monitor · Management packs and scripts written or customized for this book · Live Links—more than 100 (clickable) hypertext links and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager Contents About the Authors xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts Chapter 1 Operations Management Basics 7 Chapter 2 What’s New 41 Chapter 3 How Does It Work? 57 Part II Planning and Installation Chapter 4 Planning Your MOM Deployment 99 Chapter 5 Planning Complex Configurations 151 Chapter 6 Installing MOM 2005 173 Chapter 7 Upgrading to MOM 2005 211 Part III Deploying MOM Chapter 8 Post-Installation Tasks 237 Chapter 9 Installing and Configuring Agents 267 Chapter 10 Complex and High Performance Configurations 297 Chapter 11 Securing MOM 329 Part IV Administering MOM Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery 365 Chapter 13 Administering Management Packs 395 Chapter 14 Monitoring with MOM 423 Part V Managing with MOM Chapter 15 Managing the Operating System 487 Chapter 16 Managing Directory Services 527 Chapter 17 Managing Microsoft Messaging 565 Chapter 18 Database Management 595 Part VI Moving Beyond MOM 2005 Chapter 19 Interoperability 625 Chapter 20 Developing Management Packs 661 Chapter 21 Using and Developing Reports 719 Chapter 22 Using and Developing Scripts 777 Chapter 23 Touring Operations Manager 2007 825 Part VII Appendixes Appendix A MOM Internals 865 Appendix B Registry Settings 887 Appendix C Performance Counters 895 Appendix D Database Views 901 Appendix E Reference URLs 907 Appendix F On the CD 917 Index 919

Download or read book Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager written by Kevin Greene and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beginner's guide to help you design, deploy and administer your System Center Operations Manager 2016 and 2012 R2 environments About This Book Discover how to monitor complex IT environments with System Center Operations Manager using tips, tricks and best practice recommendations from industry experts. Learn how to create eye-catching dashboards and reports to help deliver a tangible return on investment back to your organization. Optimize, troubleshoot and perform disaster recovery in Operations Manager using step by step examples based on real-world scenarios. Who This Book Is For The target audience for this book is the IT Pro or System Administrator who wants to deploy and use System Center Operations Manager but has no previous knowledge of the product. As a 'Getting Started' book, our primary objective is to equip you with the knowledge you need to feel comfortable when working with common monitoring scenarios in OpsMgr. With this in mind, deep-diving into less-common OpsMgr features such as Audit Collection Services (ACS), Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has been intentionally omitted. What You Will Learn Install a new System Center 2016 Operations Manager Management Group Design and provision custom views to relevant support teams. Understand how to deploy agents Work with management packs Monitor network devices Model your IT services with distributed applications Create dashboards and custom visualizations Tune, optimize, maintain and troubleshoot System Center Operations Manager In Detail Most modern IT environments comprise a heterogeneous mixture of servers, network devices, virtual hypervisors, storage solutions, cross-platform operating systems and applications. All this complexity brings a requirement to deliver a centralized monitoring and reporting solution that can help IT administrators quickly identify where the problems are and how best to resolve them. Using System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr), administrators get a full monitoring overview of the IT services they have responsibility for across the organization - along with some useful management capabilities to help them remediate any issues they've been alerted to. This book begins with an introduction to OpsMgr and its core concepts and then walks you through designing and deploying the various roles. After a chapter on exploring the consoles, you will learn how to deploy agents, work with management packs, configure network monitoring and model your IT services using distributed applications. There's a chapter dedicated to alert tuning and another that demonstrates how to visualize your IT using dashboards. The final chapters in the book discuss how to create alert subscriptions, manage reports, backup and recover OpsMgr, perform maintenance and troubleshoot common problems. Style and approach A beginner's guide that focuses on providing the practical skills required to effectively deploy and administer OpsMgr with walkthrough examples and tips on all the key concepts.

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 Essentials written by Miguel Oliveira and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design, implement, and improve your infrastructure administration with System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2's automation process About This Book Learn about the components of Orchestrator, the design and implementation process, and the way it interacts with your environment to create outstanding automation processes Gain an in-depth understanding of Runbooks, while exploring its security and troubleshooting aspects Follow this step-by-step guide at your own pace and get yourself in the frontline of the Orchestrator world Who This Book Is For This book is targeted for those who want to gain time in their administrative tasks and profit from it to improve also their environment by reaching a more autonomous infrastructure. Experience with other System Center family products as well as Active Directory and other core datacentre components would be useful to help you understand and execute the information given in this book. What You Will Learn Plan, assess, design, and implement Orchestrator 2012 R2 in a corporate environment Master the Runbook Designer and discover all about the Runbook creation process Import and integrate more technologies through new imported functionalities and learn what they bring to your environment Extend your possibilities and interaction with your environment while you get a hand of the best practices for this system Implement high-availability, security, backup, and recovery procedures and fine-tuning of the platform Familiarize yourself with the Runbook design and its implementation with an insight into the methodology for a more dynamic Datacenter In Detail With the increasing complexity of systems in our infrastructure designs, administrating these systems has become more complex and repetitive. This ultimately translates into an inefficient environment and loss of time. System Center Orchestrator 2012 R2 is the tool that can help you regain that time again, by simplifying repetitive tasks (or complex ones) into a simple one that will require minimum intervention from you, or even none. This technology will drive you one step forward towards a more dynamic infrastructure and can also be used to make a customized Private Cloud environment setup. Starting off with the fundamentals of Orchestrator, this book helps you to learn the configuration and deployment of the Orchestrator 2012 R2 in a corporate environment to successfully deploy and mitigate real-life issues that you might encounter. You'll learn the most used part of Orchestrator, the Runbook Designer, with all its components and mechanisms to help you efficiently design and implement your Runbooks from top to bottom. Additionally, you will also get familiarized with configuring key Integration Packs available for Orchestrator to extend its functionality and enhance the automation solution. Furthermore, you will explore the possibilities of extending and integrating Orchestrator with other parties and learn to set up core infrastructure administrative tasks that can save time and effort when automated with Orchestrator. You finally round off by gaining insights on the maintenance aspects of Orchestrator, while simultaneously covering the troubleshooting, backup, and recovery features. Style and approach Written in a step-by-step guide format, the chapters are organized in a sequence of what you need to know first to move on to the next component. Each chapter contains a broad explanation of what we are working on at that moment and the tips provided are based on real-world experience.

Download or read book Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite Unleashed written by Chris Amaris and published by Sams Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite Unleashed is the first and only definitive real-world guide to the entire Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite. It brings together tips, tricks, best practices, and lessons learned by top consultants who’ve deployed System Center in some of the world’s largest enterprises and most successful small businesses. Drawing on years of early adopter and production experience, Rand Morimoto, Chris Amaris, and their team cover the entire System Center lifecycle and its components for system configuration, operations management, data protection, virtual machine management, help desk support, change management, asset control, capacity planning, and mobile device management. You’ll learn about individual components and how to integrate them to build automated, exceptionally efficient managed environments. For smaller businesses, the book also presents Microsoft’s streamlined, lower-cost IT management offering, System Center Essentials 2010. Use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to image, update, manage, and support servers and clients Proactively monitor your systems to identify and fix problems before they fail Use System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to provide reliable, timely backup/recovery Implement and manage all aspects of virtualization, including virtual guest sessions on both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware Make the most of System Center Service Manager 2010’s integrated tools for managing help desks, incidents, assets, and changes Use System Center Capacity Planner to properly size, procure, and deploy new systems Remotely track, secure, patch, update, and support mobile devices with System Center Mobile Device Manager Simplify small business IT management with System Center Essentials 2010’s wizards and auto-configuration components

Download or read book Essentials of Supply Chain Management written by Michael H. Hugos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling guide to the field, updated with the latest innovations Essentials of Supply Chain Management is the definitive guide to the field, providing both broad coverage and necessary detail from a practical, real-world perspective. From clear explanation of fundamental concepts to insightful discussion of supply chain innovation, this book offers students and professionals a comprehensive introduction with immediately-applicable understanding. The fourth edition has been updated to reflect the current state of the field, with coverage of the latest technologies and new case studies that illustrate critical concepts in action. Organized for easy navigation and ease-of-use, this invaluable guide also serves as a quick reference for managers in the field seeking tips and techniques for maximizing efficiency and turning the supply chain into a source of competitive advantage. The supply chain underpins the entire structure of manufacturing and retailing. Well-run, it can help a company become a global behemoth—or, if poorly-managed, it can sink a company before the product ever sees the light of day. The supply chain involves many moving parts, constantly-changing variables, and a network of other business that may have different priorities and interests—keeping it all running smoothly is a complex, but immensely powerful skill. This book takes you inside the supply chain to show you what you need to know. Understand the fundamental concepts behind supply chain management Learn how supply chains work, and how to measure their performance Explore the ways in which innovation is improving supply chains around the world Examine the supply chain as a source of competitive advantage Whether you’re at the front or the back of your supply chain, your business is affected by every other company and event in the chain. Deep understanding and a host of practical skills are required to accurately predict, react to, and manage the ever-changing stream of events that could potentially disrupt the flow. Essentials of Supply Chain Management prepares you to take on the challenge and succeed.