Supply Chain Excellence - 3rd Edition by Peter Bolstorff & Robert Rosenbaum (Paperback)

About the Book

Companies are struggling to streamline their production process across constantly evolving departments. Discover the rigorous Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) model for achieving the highest level of success--company-wide alignment.

Book Synopsis

The Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) framework is a proven solution to the ever-present business struggle of strengthening and improving company-wide processes.

This leading cross-industry model for maximizing efficiency provides you with a lasting competitive advantage, revealing the key to achieving flawless production in a compressed timeline. By incorporating the proven Supply Chain Council DCOR and CCOR models to expand the process scope, Supply Chain Excellence offers a comprehensive look at the entire value chain process and provides you with a step-by-step guide for implementing an improvement strategy that will help your organization succeed.

With examples and insights from nearly one hundred supply chain improvement projects to draw from, you will learn how to:

• identify the causes of misalignment in their company;
• utilize a scorecard to analyze and evaluate their current processes;
• strategize, prioritize, and implement a new method;
• incorporate management techniques such as Six Sigma and Lean;
• and quantify the financial value of supply chain improvement.

Supply Chain Excellence also adapts the use of the SCOR model for an SAP environment, global enterprises, and small businesses to help any organization keep its sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization.

From the Back Cover

The gold standard guide to adopting the superior, cross-industry methodologies developed by the Supply Chain Council for achieving operational superiority--the SCOR, DCOR, and CCOR Models--"Supply Chain Excellence," now updated in a third edition, is a concise, practical instruction manual to doing supply chain correctly. Now adapted for use in an SAP environment, in global enterprises, and by small businesses, the third edition features a highly compressed timeline for using the SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) framework to plan and execute supply chain improvement. You'll learn how to: - Implement changes to achieve sustainable competitive advantage - Define business opportunities along the supply chain by conducting the proper competitive analysis - Gain buy-in by educating your organization about supply chain improvement - Achieve a significant return on investment Featuring new examples from roughly 30 additional projects, the book identifies the most common contributors to supply chain misalignment, refines the use of the scorecard for better process analysis, extends the approach to encompass implementation and strategy, and quantifies the financial value of supply chain improvement to demonstrate its importance in achieving lasting competitive advantage. If you want to keep your sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization, you need a flawless, repeatable supply chain improvement approach that maximizes process efficiency and eliminates dysfunction. Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest thinking and most up-to-date strategies, the third edition of "Supply Chain Excellence" is an unparalleled guide for implementing best practices in supply chain management. Praise for Previous Editions of "Supply Chain Excellence": "If you are involved in supply chain management, read this book!"-- Paul Harmon, Executive Editor, Business Process Trends "The genius of the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) definition of supply chain management is that it simplifies the complexities of SCM down to five simple terms that everybody can agree on: plan, source, make, deliver, return." -- Industry Week ""Supply Chain Excellence" is a superb offering for organizations encountering their first supply chain difficulties, or for use as a detailed, practical how-to manual for properly managing a supply chain. It provides valuable guidance for forming a project team, gaining top management commitment, conducting environmental analyses, and managing a critical-to-quality, strategically driven project with the potential for huge payoffs." -- Quality Progress

Review Quotes

..".third edition includes material that addresses current hot topics in supply chain management...serves as an excellent read for anyone involved in the supply chain process." "--Quality Progress "

About the Author

PETER BOLSTORFF is President and CEO of SCE Limited, which supports supply chain performance through education, coaching, and process expertise. ROBERT ROSENBAUM, an award-winning journalist, is founder and President of The MarketFarm, which specializes in leveraging technical content. He was the founding editor of the former "Supply Chain Technology News."