The Lean Supply Chain
Managing the Challenge at Tesco
Barry Evans,Robert Mason
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The Lean Supply Chain
Managing the Challenge at Tesco
Barry Evans,Robert Mason
About This Book
WINNER: Les Plumes des Achats 2016 - Prix des Associations (1st edition)Over the last two decades Tesco has emerged as a dominant player in the UK market and a leading global retailer. The Lean Supply Chain explores how Tesco, over the last 20 years or so, has built its business around supply chain excellence. As a mega-retailer, Tesco has learnt to create a balanced supply chain system, supporting suppliers' needs as well as customers' requirements. This perspective, and an ambition to act sustainably, has underpinned a rebuilding of trust in the Tesco brand and a resurgence in commercial fortunes. This fully updated edition of The Lean Supply Chain contains new chapters on Tesco's current strategy, rebuilding brand trust and its CSR agenda. It charts the principles of lean thinking, customer loyalty and simplicity which were used by Tesco to frame its supply chain strategy and draws upon the authors' deep knowledge of how the retailer has dealt with challenges and market changes to provide lessons for other businesses, large or small, who wish to place how they manage their supply chains at the heart of their competitive strategy.
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Tescoâs CSR agenda
Introduction
- the CSR agenda as it has developed into general use; and,
- Tescoâs adoption of CSR as a non-financial business driver, and its potential as a proactive business builder.
The evolution of CSR
- Carnegie, who said that âthe sole purpose of being rich is to be a philanthropistâ; and,
- Rosenwald, who believed that âyou have to be able to do good to do wellâ. At the time Rosenwald, a firm advocate of the US county farm agent system and infant 4-H clubs, had just purchased a near-bankrupt mail order company â Sears Roebuck!