Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268034 in Books
• Published on: 2004-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 316 pages

From the Back Cover

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 to achieve.

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® 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 determine tomorrow'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.

About the Author

Shoshanah Cohen, C.F.P.I.M. (Mountain View, CA) and Joseph Roussel (France) are two leaders in PRTM’s Worldwide Supply Chain Practice. PRTM was founded in 1976 and has focused on operations and supply chain management from its earliest days.

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Customer Reviews

Good Content, could have been written better
The authors show good command over the subject. There are several key aspects mentioned in the book which are not obvious to everyone. The authors stumble on getting the right message out. In short, it's a very long book to cover a small subject.

Only just okay
This book has a lot of stuff in it. It's got a good overview of how to look at your supply chain starting with the supplier of your supplier, and going through to the customer of your customer.

It's got a lot of real world examples, and each of the six chapters ends in a 10-page real world case study of a large corporation.

However, I just couldn't get into it, even though I read it cover to cover. This was a hard book to trudge through, probably because of its very narrow target audience.

This book is written to the level of Senior Vice President of International Operations at a $800+ million company. It's at a pretty high level and maybe that's why it was so hard to read.

With only a few minor modifications, this book could be called: "World Class Marketing" or "Quality Improvement: New Directions." It's technically about Supply Chain Management, but it's at such a very high level.

The Best SCM Literature EVER!!
Finally, a book that explains supply chain strategy WITHOUT THE HYPE AND BUZZ WORDS!! The authors were right...this book should've been written years ago coz it will definitely enlighten those trying to unravel the intricacies in crafting a supply chain strategy. This book emphasizes the vital link between business objectives and supply chain strategy. The 5 core principles and its practical applications are discussed opposite real life examples of world class companies like Eli Lilly, Autoliv and the DoD, "the largest supply chain in the world." The frequent reference to the SCOR Model in the book only emphasize the power of the model in crafting and executing the 5 core principles the authors talk about. DON'T LEAVE FOR THE OFFICE WITHOUT THIS!!