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Supply Chain Project Management: A Structured Collaborative and Measurable Approach [Hardcover]

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157444350X 978-1574443509 August 26, 2003 1
SCM doesn't change management goals, but relies on new knowledge, practices, and skills to better achieve those goals. Going it alone, without collaborating with supply chain partners, is a dead-end strategy. Without a doubt, effective supply chains will be the product of successful application of project management disciplines coupled with innovations in supply chain management. The question remains how do you take your supply chain from dysfunctional to competitive?

The first book to take a project management approach to supply chain management, Supply Chain Project Management: A Structured, Collaborative, and Measurable Approach explains a four-stage progression toward world-class supply chain project management. The author provides a template of the stages encountered when moving to competitive supply chains, delineates the processes that organizations must implement if they are to advance from one stage to the next, and describes best practices for how to get there. He supplies structured approaches for supply chain analysis and documentation, and illustrates the concepts with examples from the trenches.

In the supply chain world, managers must choose between the "business as usual" single company approach or exploiting innovations in supply chain management and project management to their advantage. Covering the how-tos for implementing supply chain improvement, this easy-to-use guide details the steps to developing a strategy, reducing costs, and generating revenue. It shows you how to combine SCM and project management knowledge and practice to develop and execute supply chain strategies.

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  • Hardcover: 392 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (August 26, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 157444350X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1574443509
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #283,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jim is from Jefferson City, Missouri. He received his BS from the U.S. Naval Academy with distinction and MS Industrial Engineering and MBA degrees from Stanford. His industrial engineering specialty was economic systems planning. This discipline focuses on financial justification of improvement projects. He is a member of the Institute of Management Consultants, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the Project Management Institute, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). In the Navy, Jim served on nuclear submarines.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for Supply Chain Managers!, May 18, 2004
This review is from: Supply Chain Project Management: A Structured Collaborative and Measurable Approach (Hardcover)
James Ayers's earlier book, "Handbook of Supply Chain Management", addresses many aspects of Supply Chain with a mathematical precision.
The author should be commended for his newly published book, "Supply Chain Project Management", venturing into project management in Supply Chain application, an area which supply chain managers depend more and more.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book but with some flaws in referencing tables & Figures, November 15, 2005
This review is from: Supply Chain Project Management: A Structured Collaborative and Measurable Approach (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book connecting project management and supply chain. You can hardly find anything out there that relates the two.
However, it can be frustrating when most chapters have errors in its referencing of figures and tables. For example in pg.123 it reference figures 8.4 which measures "mutual adjustment" --- however, figure 10.4 shows the mutual adjustment not figure 8.4.
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First Sentence:
This work is a sequel to the Handbook of Supply Chain Management, published in 2001. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
supply chain project management, supply chain design team, multicompany steering committee, sphere design teams, implementing collaborative relationships, many supply chain projects, multicompany participation, organization roadblocks, activity system design, greenfield vision, activity system implementation, managing supply chain information, supply chain improvement project, chain improvement projects, multicompany efforts, extended product features, project management knowledge areas, supply chain change, supply chain effort, inadequate technical capability, project management maturity model, supply chain orientation, integrated change control, enable sphere, supply chain metrics
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Supply-Chain Council, Herman Miller, Wall Street Journal, Handbook of Supply Chain Management, Harvard Business Review, New York, Process Elements Process, Plan Source, John Wiley, Project Scope Management, Harold Kerzner, Boca Raton, Chris Christensen, Supply Chain Management Review, Balanced Scorecard, Council of Logistics Management, Manage Supply Chain Configuration, Stakeholders Internal, Strategy Task, Deliver Products, Expert Scheduling, Jack Welch, Quarterly Sales, Systems Approach
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