The Economist Guide To Supply Chain Management
eBook - ePub

The Economist Guide To Supply Chain Management

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eBook - ePub

The Economist Guide To Supply Chain Management

About this book

Globalisation, technology and an increasingly competitive business environment have encouraged huge changes in what is known as supply chain management, the art of sourcing components and delivering finished goods to the customer as cost effectively and efficiently as possible. Dell transformed the way people bought and were able to customise computers. Wal-Mart and Tesco have used their huge buying power and logistical skills to ensure the supply and stock management of their stores is finely honed. Manufacturers now make sure that components are where they are needed on the production line just in time for when they are needed and no longer. Such finessing of the way the supply chain works boosts the corporate bottom line and can make the difference between being a market leader or an also ran. This guide explores all the different aspects of supply chain management and gives hundreds of real life examples of what firms have achieved in the field.

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Yes, you can access The Economist Guide To Supply Chain Management by David Steven Jacoby in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Management. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9781847652201
Subtopic
Management

Table of contents

  1. Copyright Page
  2. Contents
  3. List of figures
  4. List of tables
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 A historical perspective on industry, trade and transport
  8. 2 The bullwhip problem
  9. 3 What supply chain management is and where it is going
  10. 4 Why CEOs need supply chain management today
  11. 5 Setting the right supply chain strategy
  12. 6 Rationalisation: competing on low cost
  13. 7 Synchronisation: competing on reliability
  14. 8 Customisation: competing on customer intimacy
  15. 9 Innovation: competing on revitalisation
  16. 10 Organising, training and developing staff
  17. 11 Leveraging information technology
  18. 12 Measuring success
  19. 13 Challenges for the future
  20. Notes and references
  21. Appendices
  22. Index