Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation

Advanced Strategies and Best Practices

Kevin P. McCormack, William C. Johnson

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2002
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781420000344
• Topic: Betriebswirtschaft
• Subtopic: Operations

With future competitive landscape shifting from competition between companies themselves to trading partner networks, understanding and mastering process design and change is becoming more critical than ever. In order to succeed, companies are starting to weave their key business processes into hard-to-imitate strategic capabilities that distinguis

Table of contents

• Cover
• CONTENTS
• PREFACE
• THE AUTHORS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• 1 INTRODUCTION
• 2 BUSINESS PROCESS ORIENTATION — FROM VERTICAL INTEGRATION TO NETWORKED COMMUNITIES
• 3 BPO AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE
• 4 BPO AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT MATURITY
• 5 THE EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN AND THE INTERNET —THE BRIDGE TO A SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK
• 6 INTERACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NETWORKED ECONOMY
• 7 UNBUNDLING THE CORPORATION: A BLUEPRINT FOR SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORKS
• 8 THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDING A NETWORKED SUPPLY CHAIN
• Case 1 HERDING CATS ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN
• Case 2 ENVERA™: CREATING VALUE THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
• Appendix A FINAL SURVEY QUESTIONS
• Appendix B REGRESSION AND COEFFICIENT ALPHA ANALYSIS RESULTS
• Appendix C EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN VS. INTERNET USAGE CORRELATION RESULTS
• Appendix D SC NETWORK MODEL AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS —DETAILED SURVEY QUESTIONS
• GLOSSARY
• INDEX