Supply Chain Redesign: Transforming Supply Chains into Integrated Value Systems (Hardcover)

~ (Author), Ernest L. Nichols Jr. (Author) "Two years after taking on a challenging job as director of business processes in advance purchasing, Rick Calabra, a General Motors executive, stretched back in..." (more)
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Product Description

Brings together the field's latest advances, giving business professionals a complete framework for driving out costs, improving efficiency, and optimizing the business value of any supply chain. Uses real-world examples demonstrating how to enhance collaboration and trust throughout the supply chain.

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Today's most competitive companies are going beyond "first-generation" supply chain management, to integrate processes, information flows, and material flows more thoroughly than ever before. Supply Chain Redesign brings together the field's latest advances, giving business professionals a complete framework for driving out costs, improving efficiency, and optimizing the business value of any supply chain.

Robert Handfield and Ernest Nichols offer practical insight and detailed guidance into every aspect of supply chain redesign—mapping existing supply chains, identifying changes that promise the best and fastest ROI, intelligently leveraging new technologies, strengthening relationships with key partners, and much more. From the world's most significant case studies to the latest emerging trends, this book is an unparalleled resource for supply chain success.

* Powerful new approaches to strategic cost management Today's most systematic and most effective approaches to managing cost * Building and strengthening key supplier relationships Deepening the collaborative, trust-based supplier relationships that are critical to success * New technologies, emerging standards Leveraging the advantages of Web-based technologies-and minimizing the risks * Deploying your strategy: the central role of leadership What senior management must do to support your supply chain initiative * "Supply chain friendly" product design Designing products that support lean supply chains * GM and Nortel: Making global supply chain redesign work Comprehensive case studies from two of the world's largest supply chain initiatives

The complete, hands-on guide to optimizing any supply chain.

• Emerging trends and key success factors
• Enhancing collaboration and trust throughout your redesigned supply chain
• Designing products that support efficient supply chains
• Supply chain "sweet spots"—identifying changes with the greatest payoff
• Effective B2B e-commerce and Web-based strategies
• Nortel and GM: case studies in successful supply chain redesign

Supply chains exist for one reason: to create customer value. Radical changes in every aspect of business and technology have fostered the emergence of integrated "value chains" that maximize customer value by maximizing efficiency and inte-gration. In this book, leading supply chain experts Robert Handfield and Ernest Nichols review the state-of-the-art in supply chain management, identify emerging trends that will lead to even greater change, and present powerful new strate-gies for redesigning any supply chain.

Handfield and Nichols show how to map existing supply chain networks, identifying and integrating information flows throughout an organization. Using real-world examples, they demonstrate how to enhance collaboration and trust throughout the supply chain; integrate customers and suppliers to design products that support efficient supply chains; and make the most of strategic cost management techniques. The book includes detailed chapters on B2B e-commerce, on creating information visibility on the Web, and on the key factors that lead to success in actual deployments.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: FT Press (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130603120
• ISBN-13: 978-0130603128
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #693,962 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Very good value": Book review from the "SCM Review", December 4, 2002

By A Customer

The title is a bit misleading: the book is about a lot more than redesign. Specifically it looks at the many processes and technologies associated with supply chain management. The subject matters covered run the gamut from the basics of supply chain management to supplier relationships to the fast-changing B2B landscape. The premise of educators Handfield and Nichols is that the more effectively you integrate these activities the more value you create across the supply chain. . . . The bottom line is that the pluses far outweight the minuses. The authors have a knack for explaining a range of supply chain concepts and techniques clearly. Just as important, they reinforce the discussion with real-life examples. Every major topic is introduced by a case study that sets the context for the discussion to follow. One final observation: From a cost-benefit standpoint, Supply Chain Redesign represents a good value in today's market. Very few books these days present this much worthwhile supply chain information for such a relatively low price.

Review published in the Supply Chain Management Review, November-December 2002, p. 59.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Covers the basics, but you need more, November 19, 2007

By	O. Plys (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book gives an good overview of new and seasoned SCM practices, but does not go into great depth with any of them. The chapter on Supply chain process design is OK and the section on alliances and trust is well developed. Most of the other chapters are written at too high a level and just skim the surface. That would be OK when talking about some of the IT practices, but it was very frustrating when the authors talk about the SCOR model (pps. 67-68) and give you so little detail that you realize you need to be looking in other books. This book is an ideal "quick start" for those going into SC consulting as new hires for a big firm or someone new to a SC job - but realize, you will need to be reading much more than this. However you will learn phrases such as "Partnering occured as firms sought to take advantage of market opportunities through a synergistic combination of strategic core competencies." (p. 148 - I kid you not.)

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Usefull reference book, August 5, 2006

By	Lam Sai Lok "Max Lam" (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It is really usefull as for reference as for review an existing Supply Chain.