The gold standard guide to adopting the superior, cross-industry methodologies developed by the Supply Chain Council for achieving operational superiority-the SCOR, DCOR, and CCOR Models-Supply Chain Excellence, now updated in a third edition, is a concise, practical instruction manual to doing supply chain correctly. Now adapted for use in an SAP environment, in global enterprises, and by small businesses, the third edition features a highly compressed timeline for using the SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) framework to plan and execute supply chain improvement. You'll learn how to: - Implement changes to achieve sustainable competitive advantage - Define business opportunities along the supply chain by conducting the proper competitive analysis - Gain buy-in by educating your organization about supply chain improvement - Achieve a significant return on investment Featuring new examples from roughly 30 additional projects, the book identifies the most common contributors to supply chain misalignment, refines the use of the scorecard for better process analysis, extends the approach to encompass implementation and strategy, and quantifies the financial value of supply chain improvement to demonstrate its importance in achieving lasting competitive advantage. If you want to keep your sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization, you need a flawless, repeatable supply chain improvement approach that maximizes process efficiency and eliminates dysfunction. Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest thinking and most up-to-date strategies, the third edition of Supply Chain Excellence is an unparalleled guide for implementing best practices in supply chain management.

In this latest edition of Supply Chain Excellence, the authors provide tools for measuring financial gains linked to value chain optimisation. (Business Digest, March 2012). To keep your sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization, you need a flawless, repeatable supply chain improvement approach that maximizes process efficiency, eliminates dysfunction, and aligns disparate organizations-globally.

In the quest to remove supply channel costs, streamline channel communications, and link customers to the value-added resources found along the supply chain continuum, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has emerged as a tactical operations tool. The first book to completely define the architecture of the merger of SCM and the Internet, Introduction to e

It is almost impossible to conceive of the concept and practical application of supply chain management (SCM) without linking it to the enabling power of today‘s information technologies. Building upon the foundations of the first edition, Introduction to Supply Chain Management Technologies, Second Edition details the software toolsets and suites

When work began on the first volume ofthis text in 1992, the science of dis tribution management was still very much a backwater of general manage ment and academic thought. While most of the body of knowledge associated with calculating EOQs, fair-shares inventory deployment, productivity curves, and other operations management techniques had long been solidly established, new thinking about distribution management had taken a definite back-seat to the then dominant interest in Lean thinking, quality management, and business process reengineering and their impact on manufacturing and service organizations. For the most part, discussion relating to the distri bution function centered on a fairly recent concept called Logistics Manage ment. But, despite talk of how logistics could be used to integrate internal and external business functions and even be considered a source of com petitive advantage on its own, most of the focus remained on how companies could utilize operations management techniques to optimize the traditional day-to-day shipping and receiving functions in order to achieve cost contain ment and customer fulfillment objectives. In the end, distribution manage ment was, for the most part, still considered a dreary science, concerned with oftransportation rates and cost trade-offs. expediting and the tedious calculus Today, the science of distribution has become perhaps one of the most im portant and exciting disciplines in the management of business.

Supply Chain Excellence is the ultimate supply chain continuous improvement process. It is holistic, ensuring customer satisfaction from the original raw material provider to the ultimate, finished-product consumer. In other words, it is doing business with No Boundaries. When a supply chain achieves Supply Chain Excellence, its links run together into a smooth, agile, continuous flow. No Boundaries introduces you to the Six Levels of Supply Chain Excellence and the eight core competencies necessary for moving up the levels. You will learn how to achieve awesome supply chain results with technology. The supply chains you create with this book will have No Boundaries, resulting in tremendous competitive advantage. Achieving Supply Chain Excellence is a bold new journey, but it is the only way to travel. For those who want to win in today's global marketplace, it's time to begin the journey!