The Supply Chain Network @ Internet Speed: Preparing Your Company for the E-Commerce Revolution [Hardcover]

Fred A. Kuglin (Author), Barbara A. Rosenbaum (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 17, 2000

The power of technology is completely transforming business operations, radically boosting speed, efficiency, and shareholder value. One of the newest and most promising applications of electronic technology is in supply chain management, the distinctly unglamorous but absolutely essential steps that take place between procuring raw materials and shipping final products.

For executives and managers involved in manufacturing supply chains -- whether suppliers, manufacturing assemblers, wholesalers/distributors, retailers, or transportation providers -- this practical, step-by-step guide explains how to create cost-effective, state-of-the-art fulfillment capabilities. Packed with relevant examples, each chapter focuses on improving supply chain technology, processes, and people in specific industries, including:
-- Retail -- Consumer products -- E-trading communities
-- High-tech manufacturing -- Hosted applications -- Automotive
-- E-exchanges -- Oil and gas -- Transportation
-- E-business front-end -- Health care pharmaceuticals, and more.

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Book Description

"The power of technology is completely transforming business operations, radically boosting speed, efficiency, and shareholder value. One of the newest and most promising applications of electronic technology is in supply chain management, the distinctly unglamorous but absolutely essential steps that take place between procuring raw materials and shipping final products.

For executives and managers involved in manufacturing supply chains--whether suppliers, manufacturing assemblers, wholesalers/distributors, retailers, or transportation providers--this practical, step-by-step guide explains how to create cost-effective, state-of-the-art fulfillment capabilities. Packed with relevant examples, each chapter focuses on improving supply chain technology, processes, and people in specific industries, including:

* Retail * Consumer products * E-trading communities * High-tech manufacturing * Hosted applications * Automotive * E-exchanges * Oil and gas * Transportation * E-business front-end * Health care pharmaceuticals, and more."

About the Author

"Fred A. Kuglin (Dallas, TX) is vice president in the Supply Chain Operations practice with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US LLP.

Barbara A. Rosenbaum (Baltimore, MD) is a director with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Global Supply Chain service line."

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 17 and up
  
• Hardcover: 246 pages
• Publisher: AMACOM; 1st edition (November 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814405959
• ISBN-13: 978-0814405956
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,209,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Packed With Knowledge, July 3, 2001

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Supply Chain Network @ Internet Speed: Preparing Your Company for the E-Commerce Revolution (Hardcover)

Wade through the technical jargon and dive directly into this deep pool of operational intelligence on the complexities of modern supply-chain management. Fred A. Kuglin and Barbara A. Rosenbaum provide step-by-step guidelines on how to put e-based solutions into effect throughout your supply chain to achieve cost effectiveness (that is, save money). Using the CEO's perspective, they describe a series of supply-chain approaches designed to address issues like capital requirements and production costs that drive company valuations. The book, which is forthrightly technical, is targeted to the CEO or high-level executive in charge of operations. We [...] highly recommend this book to this select audience, and commend the authors on their useful mix of charts, illustrations and dramatizations to illustrate supply-chain problems and solutions.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Do you like nice little stories?, August 13, 2001

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Susanne Wrage (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Supply Chain Network @ Internet Speed: Preparing Your Company for the E-Commerce Revolution (Hardcover)

The book does not deliver on what it promises. The structure is ok, and the goal of presenting different problems with solutions from different industries is good. But then, the book dives into telling little stories about unnamed CEOs, and how they reacted to their respective e-challenges. This setting tries to make the challenges more personal, and it even includes "The CEO's daughter's birthday".

Either you like this style, and then you will like the book, or it will set your teeth on edge.