Supply_Chain

Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Disciplines for Top Performance Book Description How today's industry leaders are building supply chain efficiencies--and creating long-term competitive advantage Supply chain management is among the most complex and difficult activities in today's environment of shorter lead times, tighter delivery schedules, and dramatically increased product variety. It is also among the most important. "Strategic Supply Chain Management "explores the knowledge, techniques, and strategies necessary to create value and achieve competitive advantage from your supply chain. Based on the hands-on experiences of PRTM, the global leader in supply chain management and innovation, this all-in-one guidebook and reference features: In-depth and illustrative profiles of seven leading and distinct supply chain organizations, ranging from Eli Lilly to the U.S. Department of Defense Strategies built around the Supply Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR) for increasing both the internal and external productivity of your company's supply chain Guidelines for honestly assessing--and incrementally improving--your company's interaction with its supply chain partners "Strategic Supply Chain Management "establishes a new standard for building a low-maintenance, high-performance supply chain. Short on theory and long on proven strategies of well-known companies, it will help any organization align its supply chain with its business goals. "We have to get a handle on our supply chain." These words have become a standard corner-office lament in today's no-room-for-error business arena. But even when companies address their most glaring supply chain challenges, they can still find that cost-effective and strategic supply chain management is hard toachieve. "Strategic Supply Chain Management "is the authoritative, all-in-one reference and guidebook for creating value and competitive advantage for each core supply chain process: "plan, source, make, deliver," and "return." Written by two consultants from global supply chain leader and innovator PRTM--creators of the PACE(R) product development framework as well as the industry-standard SCOR reference model--this authoritative book helps you understand the core disciplines that arise from best practices and advanced systems in supply chain management. Those disciplines are: View your supply chain as a strategic asset--and establish your organization's basis for competition, developing a supply chain strategy that supports it Develop an end-to-end process architecture--and manage your business practices and supporting information systems to continuously address the needs of your organization Design your organization for performance--and ensure you have the skills necessary to develop and manage the complex supply chains of the future Build the right collaborative model--and continuously improve the state of your relationships with your supply chain partners Use metrics to drive business success--and manage continuous improvement within the supply chain Decision makers and managers charged with the operation of an organization's supply chain can become overwhelmed with the day-to-day demands of the task, leaving them little time to ponder the whats, whys, and why-nots of their responsibilities. "Strategic Supply Chain Management "moves beyond business cycles and shifting management emphases to examine how organizations are building the core competencies that will determinetomorrow's competitive landscape. As we are thrust headfirst into the 21st century, this timely book outlines the techniques, technologies, and rules that will allow manufacturers to confront the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities that are right around the corner. Agile, strategic supply chain management is a key competitive necessity in today's no-room-for-error business arena. And few organizations have acquired more knowledge--and demonstrated better results--than the team at global management consultancy Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd, and McGrath (PRTM). In the breakthrough reference Strategic Supply Chain Management, two of PRTM's leading consultants in this practice explain everything that corporate decision-makers need to know to create value and competitive advantage from their supply chains. Shoshanna Cohen has contributed to Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Disciplines for Top Performance as an author. Cohen is a lead partner in the Worldwide Supply Chain Practice of global management consultancy Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath. Joseph Roussel has contributed to Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Disciplines for Top Performance as an author. Shoshanah Cohen und Joseph Roussel sind Direktoren der Supply Chain Practice bei PRTM Management Consultants. Beide waren maAgeblich an der Entwicklung des als Industriestandard etablierten Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR) beteiligt und verfA1/4gen A1/4ber profunde Beratungserfahung im Bereich Supply-Chain-Strategie sowie Entwicklung effizienter Supply-Chain-Konzepte und deren Implementierung. Shoshanah Cohen, mit Sitz in Mountain View, Kalifornien, ist Mitglied des Redaktionsbeirates wichtiger Industriemagazine. Genauso wie Joseph Roussel, aus dem Pariser PRTM-BA1/4ro, halten be Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Disciplines for Top Performance Get the most out of your supply chain management process (if you have one). 2/28/2005 It's clear that for the last ten or so years, supply chain management has become the golden boy of management discipline and the beneficiary of countless billions of dollars in investments, such as in enterprise resource planning software. But equally true, we suspect, is the following sentence from the new book Strategic Supply Chain Management, written by Shoshanah Cohen (HBS MBA '92) and Joseph Roussel. "Most companies do not have a documented and communicated supply chain strategy, and when asked to create one, many practitioners confess they would not know how to write one or get top-level sanction for it." This book is intended to place the supply chain at the heart of strategic and tactical decision making in the modern corporation. The authors urge you to structure your supply chain into five core disciplines: 1. View your supply chain as a strategic asset. 2. Develop an end-to-end process architecture. 3. Design your organization for performance. 4. Build the right collaborative model. 5. Use metrics to drive business success. Those rather deceptively simple ideas are buttressed with examples from heavyweight supply chain practitioners including Eli Lilly, the U.S. Department of Defense, Owens Corning, and General Motors. One important lesson: Listen to friends. In the 1990s, airbag manufacturer Autoliv saw its supply chain process hitting its limit. The company tried to fix its own problems, but after years of little success Autoliv turned to a customer for advice: Toyota. In two years, the company had adapted the Toyota Production System and its manufacturing process was transformed. The final chapter details how to create a roadmap for change, underlining the importance of integrating strategy, process, organization, and information systems. This book is a down-to-earth examination of the current state of supply chain management, how you can improve your own processes, and what the future holds.—Sean Silverthorne