2007 Fall list: The Supply Chain Cost Management: The Aim & Drive Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results [Hardcover]

Jimmy Anklesaria (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0814474756 | ISBN-13: 978-0814474754 | Publication Date: October 31, 2007

For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated - and then doing so effectively - can prove impossible without the right method. This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers. Using real life case studies and examples, the book gives readers everything they need to implement this powerful system, and bring genuine and permanent savings to their company.

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Book Description

For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated—and then doing so effectively—can prove impossible without the right method. This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers. Using real-life case studies and examples, the book takes readers step-by-step through the process, showing them how to move beyond negotiation and:

• identify critical costs in the supply chain

• measure secondary and tertiary costs

• develop strategic options

• reduce, change, or eliminate activities that produce costs

• implement an action plan

• verify the plan with cost monitors

• continually improve and modify the process

The book gives readers everything they need to implement this powerful system, and bring genuine and permanent savings to their company.

About the Author

Jimmy Anklesaria (Del Mar, CA) is one of the world’s most sought-after speakers on cost management. He conducts seminars and workshops in cost management for various companies including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Chevron, BP, T-Mobile, Texas Instruments, Philips, Anglo American Mining, and many more.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM (October 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814474756
• ISBN-13: 978-0814474754
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Proven process for cooperatively cutting costs with your suppliers, October 24, 2008

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2007 Fall list: The Supply Chain Cost Management: The Aim & Drive Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results (Hardcover)

Author Jimmy Anklesaria's "AIM & DRIVE" process is a method for reducing costs by working with your entire supply chain. You will learn how to assemble a cost-cutting initiative, how to bring your suppliers into the process and how to work with them to benefit mutually from cost reductions. Anklesaria's writing is a bit colloquial, but that means it reads easily, which offsets some of the necessary dryness of the process descriptions. The book has helpful worksheets plus samples of actual work from the author's clients. Anklesaria has written this manual for people who work regularly with suppliers, so it is not directed toward the general business reader. However, it is no more complex than necessary. getAbstract recommends it to practitioners at all levels who wish to manage costs cooperatively.

5.0 out of 5 stars A helpful book for those dealing with controlling supply chain costs, July 25, 2008

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Craig Matteson (Saline, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2007 Fall list: The Supply Chain Cost Management: The Aim & Drive Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results (Hardcover)

Jimm Anklesaria has a method for managing cost in your supply chain. He has used this eight step program as a consultant and wants to share it with you. The purpose of this method is to work with your suppliers (or customers) to go after the big cost reducing opportunities. Simply trying to negotiate a lower price without fixing the reasons for the higher prices is of very limited usefulness. You can bully your suppliers for a few percentage points, but after that you are pushing them into financial difficulty. They will either have to drop you as a customer or go out of business.

The process Aklesaria teaches in this book is AIM & DRIVE. The acronym stands for:

* Agree on the need to manage costs
* Identifying critical costs in the supply chain
* Measuring secondary and tertiary costs

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* Defining the key cost drivers and developing strategic options
* Reducing, eliminating, or changing activities that cause costs
* Implementing an action plan
* Verifying the plan with cost monitors
* Eternally improving and leveraging the process

Remember, this is not a book for fixing costs in your entire company. This is focused on your supply chain and for this it seems like a good approach.

The author includes sample reports and worksheets to provide examples of what you should be doing. I also liked his formula approach to understanding costs rather than the usual peanut butter smearing of costs just because you have to. And the author is clear that cost reduction is a process you must continue forever because your competitors will copy any successes you have.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

5.0 out of 5 stars The Aim and Drive process is brilliant!, January 21, 2008

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Edee Dunning "Managing Director" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2007 Fall list: The Supply Chain Cost Management: The Aim & Drive Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results (Hardcover)

At long last a book on Supply Chain Cost Management that makes sense
and a process that can be implemented by anyone. I enjoyed the author's
free flowing style, the examples and clear logic. This process is not
just for the big companies out there but for small and medium companies
as well. Very clear and concise. Excellent book!