Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations: A Guide to Sustainable World-Class Capability and Results

Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations: A Guide to Sustainable World-Class Capability and Results

In most boardrooms today, the pressure to continuously shrink the distance from gross revenue to net operating profit and consistently improve ROIC is acute. Many have realized and many more are beginning to realize that a well-integrated and managed supply chain is a major driver of continuously improving results. Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations clearly defines how to achieve and maintain a supply chain leadership position by focusing on real-world execution and detailed integration of specific actions and process techniques. These distinguished experts and accomplished authors have gathered the nuggets of success from many international firms and combined them into a winning formula, not available in other books, that has been achieved by the select few. This unique, how to guide brings the opportunities within the sub-processes of procurement and supply management into focus and includes both the hard side and soft side of the continuous process transformation. The practical concepts, deployment examples, and illustrations are explained with precision for ease of understanding and are tailored for application to any business environment. This no-fluff book will put money in your company coffers. In most companies, the effort to improve supply chain results has been short lived, incomplete, or sub-optimized. The most common reason is the lack of a clear understanding of what they really need to do, specifically line of sight linkage of the enterprise in the transformation process efforts to customers and shareholders. Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations provides a credible integrated roadmap to extended supply chain and enterprise engagement, and sustainable optimized business results. It is a must read for executives, consultants and managers in all types of operations management roles, and is suitable for advanced academic courses as well. Now more than ever, meaningful supply chain transformation is critical to the success of global organizations. But far too often, supply chain transformations sputter and fail, leaving behind a trail of broken initiatives, angry suppliers and demotivated employees. Only by successfully embedding the processes necessary for transformation will organizations make the leap to true competitiveness on the world stage. Reading Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations is your next step towards revolutionizing your organization. --Nora P. Neibergall, CPSM, C.P.M., Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Institute for Supply Management Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations zeroes in on not just identifying and improving a complex supply chain, but more importantly, describing the need for key stakeholders to develop consistent processes that meet all customer needs, and establishing stakeholder leadership after the process work is done. --Vic Bonneau, President, Power for GE Aviation Systems This book is needed -- now. I enthusiastically endorse it. It is a well-written, lucid, clear, and logical guide to supply chain organizational transformation. It deserves to be read and studied in its entirety. --Morgan L. Swink, Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of Operations Management In most board rooms today, the pressure to continuously shrink the distance from gross revenue to net operating profit and consistently improve ROIC is acute. Many have realized and many more are beginning to realize that a well-integrated and managed supply chain is a major driver of continuously improving results. Advanced Supply Management Strategy and Execution makes the tie between competitive survival and supply chain leadership, maturity of process, and associated results. It clearly defines how to achieve and maintain a supply chain leadership position by focusing on real-world execution and detailed integration of specific actions and process techniques. These distinguished experts and accomplished authors have gathered the nuggets of success from many international firms and combined them into a winning formula, not available in other books, that has been achieved by the select few. This unique, how to guide brings the opportunity within the sub-processes of procurement and supply management into focus and includes both the hard side and soft side of the continuous process transformation. The real-world concepts, deployment examples, and illustrations are practical and explained with precision for ease of understanding and are tailored for application to any business environment. This no-fluff book will put money in your company coffers.In most companies, the effort to improve supply chain results has been short lived, incomplete, or sub-optimized. The most common reason is the lack of a clear understanding of what they really need to do, specifically line of sight linkage of the enterprise in the transformation process efforts to customers and shareholders. Advanced Supply Management Strategy and Execution provides a credible integrated roadmap t