Supply Chain Management (SCM) is increasingly becoming a subject of interest, with books and journal articles written to add to the surging body of knowledge about it. This book is one of those. It is well-written; its chapters are logically arranged for a coherent discussion. It seeks to enable readers to understand how SCM impacts on all areas and processes of an organisation, and how improvements can be made in the various processes through the application of the practices it discusses. The importance of the book in the industry of knowledge lies in the fact that Supply Chain Management is becoming increasingly widespread across different industries in the public and private sectors. "Both small and large enterprises benefit from effective SCM" (p.v). As defined by Ambe and Badenhorst-Weiss (2012), SCM is "the function whereby public sector organisations acquire goods, services and development and construction proje