Supply Chain Management Strategy: Using SCM to Create Greater Corporate Efficiency and Profits - Hardcover

Drive more value from your supply chain by choosing and implementing the right models and strategies. Supply Chain Management Strategy offers expert guidance for comparing and choosing models, implementing governance, and strategizing to enable sales growth, margin growth, and superior customer experience. Lead authored by pioneering supply chain management expert Alexandre Oliveira, this guide focuses on driving maximum business value from modern supply chain strategies and models. Oliveira and senior supply chain executive Anne Gimeno thoroughly introduce the topic, offer detailed descriptions of each relevant model, and present modern applications and best practices drawn from the experiences of leading companies. Coverage includes: Adaptive, Triple-A, customer-driven, demand-driven, and resilient supply chains Assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each model in your unique context Implementing effective governance, including Sales and Operations Planning (SandOP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP), and Business Forecasting Capability (BFC) Performing effective supply chain continuity planning (BCP) Enabling growth in sales, revenue, and market share Accelerating revenue cycles and reducing lost sales Supporting marketing and sales initiatives Growing margins by reducing the cost of sales Balancing asset management, service level, cost structure, and other tradeoffs Delighting customers with the right service level at the right cost This guide's content will be exceptionally helpful for both practitioners and students, including participants in APICS and other leading certification programs.

Compare, choose, and execute on your optimal supply chain models and strategies

• Using supply chain strategy to grow sales, revenue, and market share
• Using supply chain strategy to reduce costs and cost to serve
• Customizing strategy for your own products, services, and environment
• Mastering the strategic elements of high-level SCM programs

This book will help you use supply chain strategy to grow sales and margins, deliver consistently superior customer experience, reduce cost, and drive more value to shareholders and stakeholders.

 

Global supply chain management experts Alexandre Oliveira and Anne Gimeno guide you through comparing and choosing models, implementing effective governance, and leveraging today’s highest-value applications and best practices.

 

Drawing on extensive field experience, they review today’s strategic supply chain challenges, and illuminate each leading strategy. They identify key strengths and weaknesses of each approach, helping you evaluate and apply them in your own business context.

 

This best-practice guide will be exceptionally valuable to all supply chain strategists, executives, practitioners, and students; and for anyone seeking high-level certification in the field.

 

Whatever your products or services, this book can help you apply supply chain strategy to optimize value for both shareholders and customers.

 

The authors—two of the field’s leading consultants—thoroughly discuss every supply chain mechanism for increasing value. You’ll find expert insights on establishing master plans to support complex and fluid supply chains; and for accelerating key cycles, including purchase-to-pay and manufacturing-to-revenue.

 

Supply Chain Management Strategy introduces strategic options for growing sales, margins, and market share; supporting sales and marketing initiatives, enhancing customer experience; offering differentiated service packages; balancing service with cost, and much more.

 

The authors share powerful tools and blueprints, including their exclusive Supply Network Business Value Model (SNValue), Business Value Impact Chart (BV Chart), and Balanced Control Panel (BC Panel). Using their tools and advice, you can transform your supply chain into a core driver of both short- and long-term profit.

• Sell more, with higher margins
• Satisfy customers with the right service level at the right cost
• Ensure continuity and reduce risk
• Shorten time-to-revenue
• Balance key tradeoffs more effectively
• Build a virtuous cycle that improves visibility and promotes innovation