Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices (Resource Management) - Hardcover

Kevin P. McCormack; William C. Johnson; William T. Walker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574443275 ISBN 13: 9781574443271

Publisher: CRC Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 distinguish them from their competitors. Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices will help you "connect the dots" by offering insights on how to achieve greater integration within your supply chain networks and realize the performance possible with today's interaction economics.

Based on exhaustive research of supply chains and newly successful networked corporations in the US and Europe, the authors demonstrate how your company can be successful in building an effective supply chain network. Prescriptive benchmarking models illustrate proven strategies, tactics, and methods for achieving a superior level of supply chain performance.

About this title

About the Author:

McCormack has over 25 years of business leadership and consulting experience in manufacturing, high tech, and information technology services industries in the United States and Europe. He holds engineering and chemistry degrees from Purdue University, an M.B.A., and a doctorate in business administration. He is president of DRK Research and Consulting, LLC.

Johnson is a Full Professor of Marketing in Nova Southeastern University's Huizenga Graduate School of Business and Entrepreneurship. Johnson earned his Ph.D. in business from Arizona State University in 1985.

An educator and writer with a lifelong fascination for military history, William Walker grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, exploring the Civil War forts surrounding the city. After a forty-year career in college teaching and administration, he returned to his first love of military history to investigate a pivotal incident in America s largest and bloodiest battle, World War I s Meuse-Argonne Offensive. "Betrayal at Little Gibraltar" is his first book.

Review:

"The authors have developed a focused, rigorous methodology for assessing supply chain processes and identifying the path forward for establishing specific performance improvements. Managers from many different functions can benefit from reading this book and applying the lessons to their own supply chain business processes." -Robert Handfield, Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management Director, Supply Chain Resource Consortium, College of Management, North Carolina State University Promo Copy

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1574443275
• ISBN 13: 9781574443271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240