Supply Chain Optimization: Building the Strongest Total Business Network (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Hardcover

POIRIER

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1881052931 ISBN 13: 9781881052937

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 1996

Synopsis

This text illustrates how companies that create, distribute and sell products can join forces to establish a supply network with a competitive advantage. It includes action studies which demonstrate how the concepts described in the book have been implemented.

About this title

From the Author

Moving from Intra to InterEnterprise Reengineering
If I gave you $1 trillion to buy an entire supply chain would you do business in the same manner as is done today - of course not, yet billions of dollars are wasted in the traditional ways of dealing with the market. Over the past 8 years significant gains have been drawn from applying Business Process Reengineering to corporations. Yet, we have found that "free" resources are available and multiple times gains can result by partnering with others within the supply chain. This book summarizes actual case studies where corporations around the globe have successfully employeed cooperative partnering to yield gains never imagined. This book takes use beyond Reengineering, without the pain.

From the Back Cover

As the myriad of companies that have recently downsized are coming to realize, it's difficult to pursue increased profits with reduced resources. Supply Chain Optimization outlines a strategy for overcoming this problem by breaking down the boundaries that have traditionally segregated supply chain participants from one another - fractionalizing their earning power. By analyzing the entire process, from initial supply to ultimate consumption, the authors help readers to identify the goals, avoid the pitfalls, and implement this new method of doing business. At the heart of the authors' plan is a four-step model to mobilize joint effort and focus resources from suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers on initiatives that have a high pay-back potential. The book includes case studies that show what a wide range of companies are actually doing to achieve supply chain optimization. Companies profiled include: Proctor & Gamble, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Packaging Corporation of America, and Dominick's. Supply Chain Optimization offers survival tools for companies of all sizes. The authors describe consortiums, or ""share groups,"" of smaller companies that can compete with the volume leverage of large corporations, superstores, and warehouse stores. By analyzing their shared supply chain and pooling their available resources, these consortiums can find hidden savings to protect their profit margins and remain competitive in today's marketplace.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1881052931
• ISBN 13: 9781881052937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312