Achieve best practices in supply chain management
Much is being written about global supply chain and sourcingoptions emerging in today's marketplace. Transforming supply chainmanagement to achieve operations excellence is a mandate for manycompanies globally. Supply Chain Transformation walks youthrough this potentially difficult process and gets you started onthe journey. Much more than just a how-to book, it's a why-to bookthat is as compelling for any business person as it is for supplychain management professionals. This book provides an invaluableroad map to companies looking to transform their supply chains andorganizations to achieve best practice results, beginning withguidance on how to make the case for change. Change is inevitable;growth is optional.
* Includes real world cases and illustrations
* Offers a step-by-step road map to transforming your supplychain
* Explains how to obtain "senior management" commitment totransformation
* Covers sourcing, production, and logistics process integrationpoints with product development, marketing, sales, and financeprocesses as well as emerging technologies (RFID, Cloud computing,telematics, ERP, GPS/LBS & others)
One of the biggest hurdles to supply chain transformation isovercoming a culture that is resistant to change. Supply ChainTransformation helps you understand the cultural resistance andevaluate where change is needed most, and then develop the gameplan for overcoming resistance to achieve best practiceresults.