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A winning formula for capitalizing on the supply chain to satisfy customers and build revenue.

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Hardcover: 221 pages
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (March 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576750523
ISBN-13: 978-1576750520
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.9 inches
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value chain constellation, supply chain improvement efforts, chain constellations, glass pipeline, profitable revenue growth, nucleus firm, constellation partners, supply chain evolution, supply chain excellence, internal excellence, mutual resources, supply chain improvements, nucleus unit, supply chain optimization, supply chain performance, profitable revenues, network advantage

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Sara Lee, Action Midlevel Expanded Total, Alliances Supplier Best, Benefits Leveraged Prioritized Best, Focus Inventory, Guidance Cost, Interenterprise Global, Model None Supply, Process Advanced Demand-supply, Process Forecasting, Sun Microsystems, Tools Teaming, Training Team Leadership Partnering Network, Office Depot

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2.0 out of 5 stars Sustained Competitive Advantage?, April 18, 2000

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Peter Senge wrote "the only sustainable competitive advantage is to learn faster than your competition." Hmmm, makes sense.

Unfortunately in this book, the author is into buzzwords. The author does not explain how to build a sustained competitive advantage. But then again you already know that is not possible. Yes, you can have a competitive advantage in your supply chain - the problem is there is no reason that your competitors can't do the same thing ... so what is sustained? Just some more jive to take advantage of logistics concepts that are as old as Napoleon's army.

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As Theodore Levitt observed "man lives not by bread alone but mostly by buzzwords". Little substance here. Like many books of its type would have been much better if it was 1000% shorter.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Tons of Theory & Buzzwords, Zero practical application, December 18, 2003

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Lots of talk about "mushroom-shaped business models" and "value constellations", and maybe 1 good framework that is useful (the phases of supply chain efforts).

Everything worthwhile is in the first couple of chapters - after that it devolves into hypothetical mumbo-jumbo without a supporting case study in sight.

Great if you want to examine the possibilities, but it smacked of the late-90's "any business model is possible" thinking.

Lots of stuff like "in the future, businesses will have to choose who in their supply chain will do all the purchasing for every company, and share costs and revenues". It sounded a lot like Marx's "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

I was looking for practical advice on how to move my company forward. I wasted 2 five-hour flights reading this.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Do you Have a Supply Network?
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Cheers to Charles C. Poirier, who took a topic that almost cries out for unintelligible jargon and undecipherable graphs, and instead laid it plain, in common English, for all to... Read more

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sustained advantage through a customer focused approach
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