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Strategic supply chain management : the five disciplines for top performance / Shoshanah Cohen & Joseph Roussel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill Education, 2013.Edition: Second editionDescription: xvii, 298 p. : ill. b&w ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780071813082
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.7
Contents:
Ch. 1. Discipline1: Align your supply chain with your business strategy -- BASF: Increasing farm yields through innovations in Chemistry -- Ch. 2. Discipline 2: Develop an end-to-end process architecture -- Essilor: Building an efficient supply chain to serve the company's mission -- Ch. 3. Discipline 3: Design a high-performing supply chain organization -- Haier: Pursuing the customer-inspired supply chain -- Ch. 4. Discipline 4: Build the right collaborative model -- Kaiser Permanente: Thriving under pressure -- Ch. 5. Discipline 5: Use metrics to drive performance -- Lenovo: Moving full-speed ahead -- Ch. 6. Benchmarking results: The best-in-class performance advantage -- Schlumberger: Integrating people and technology for service excellence -- Ch. 7. Transform your supply chain
Summary: The global landscape has changed dramatically since the first edition of Strategic Supply Chain Management established itself as the authority on creating value and achieving competitive advantage from the supply chain. Shorter economic cycles, more-frequent natural disasters, higher costs in low-cost countries, more-restricted access to working capital, and greater focus on sustainabilityhave made effective supply chain management much more challenging--and much more critical to the bottom line. This second edition is your answer to gaining a strategic advantage in the face of these challenges. Drawing on dozens of new company examples as well as cutting-edge benchmarking research, it shows you how to make your supply chains more agile, flexible, and resilient. With 80 easy-to-read tables and diagrams, this fully revised book explains how to: - Develop a supply chain strategy that will help you realize your business goals - Design a process architecture that maps out the activities of the end-to-end supply chain - Create the most effective supply chain organization - Build the most beneficial relationships with your supply chain partners - Use metrics to assess and drive business success - Implement transformational change See how today's best supply chain strategies work in all-new profiles of BASF, Essilor, Haier, Kaiser Permanente, Lenovo, and Schlumberger. Find out what these industry leaders are doing to get the greatest value outof their supply chains. When value depends on how well you deliver, you need Strategic Supply Chain Management, Second Edition.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Discipline1: Align your supply chain with your business strategy --
BASF: Increasing farm yields through innovations in Chemistry --
Ch. 2. Discipline 2: Develop an end-to-end process architecture --
Essilor: Building an efficient supply chain to serve the company's mission --
Ch. 3. Discipline 3: Design a high-performing supply chain organization --
Haier: Pursuing the customer-inspired supply chain --
Ch. 4. Discipline 4: Build the right collaborative model --
Kaiser Permanente: Thriving under pressure --
Ch. 5. Discipline 5: Use metrics to drive performance --
Lenovo: Moving full-speed ahead --
Ch. 6. Benchmarking results: The best-in-class performance advantage --
Schlumberger: Integrating people and technology for service excellence --
Ch. 7. Transform your supply chain

The global landscape has changed dramatically since the first edition of Strategic Supply Chain Management established itself as the authority on creating value and achieving competitive advantage from the supply chain. Shorter economic cycles, more-frequent natural disasters, higher costs in low-cost countries, more-restricted access to working capital, and greater focus on sustainabilityhave made effective supply chain management much more challenging--and much more critical to the bottom line.

This second edition is your answer to gaining a strategic advantage in the face of these challenges. Drawing on dozens of new company examples as well as cutting-edge benchmarking research, it shows you how to make your supply chains more agile, flexible, and resilient.

With 80 easy-to-read tables and diagrams, this fully revised book explains how to:
- Develop a supply chain strategy that will help you realize your business goals
- Design a process architecture that maps out the activities of the end-to-end supply chain
- Create the most effective supply chain organization
- Build the most beneficial relationships with your supply chain partners
- Use metrics to assess and drive business success
- Implement transformational change

See how today's best supply chain strategies work in all-new profiles of BASF, Essilor, Haier, Kaiser Permanente, Lenovo, and Schlumberger. Find out what these industry leaders are doing to get the greatest value outof their supply chains.

When value depends on how well you deliver, you need Strategic Supply Chain Management, Second Edition.

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