| Description |
1 online resource (517 pages) |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Introduction""; ""How the book is organized""; ""The philosophy: Learning with cases""; ""1 Thinking strategically about supply chain management""; ""The extended supply chain""; ""From a function to a vital company process""; ""From operations to finance, leadership, innovation and risk management""; ""The supply chain: An integrative view of a company�s business model""; ""Note""; ""2 The supply chain: Key driver of your business model"" |
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""The flexibility�efficiency dilemma""""The supply chain�s global footprint""; ""The flow and stock of capital in the supply chain""; ""Organizing the supply chain processes""; ""Innovation through the supply chain""; ""Cases in this chapter""; ""Case 3.1 Numico: Delivering innovation through the supply chain (A)""; ""Case 3.2 Numico: Transforming the supply chain to support new realities (B)""; ""Case 3.3 Numico: King Project""; ""Case 3.4 ABB transformers""; ""Case 3.5 Hewlett-Packard: Creating a virtual supply chain (A)"" |
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""Case 3.6 Hewlett-Packard: Creating a virtual supply chain (B)""""Chapter notes""; ""4 Making the supply chain work""; ""Supply chain fundamentals""; ""Managing relations across companies""; ""Challenging customer demands and reducing supply chain complexities""; ""Sharing risks and rewards with customers and suppliers""; ""Fast-track project management with suppliers""; ""Cases in this chapter""; ""Case 4.1 Novo Nordisk Engineering: Running for fast-track project execution""; ""Case 4.2 Building partnerships: Reinventing Oracle�s go-to-market strategy"" |
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""Case 4.3 LEGO: Consolidating distribution (A)""""Case 4.4 LEGO: Consolidating distribution (B)""; ""Case 4.5 Freqon: Buyer�supplier evolution?""; ""Case 4.6 Unaxis: Going Asia (A)""; ""Case 4.7 Unaxis: Going Asia (B)""; ""Chapter notes""; ""Case study notes""; ""5 Sustaining supply chain alignment""; ""How much does change affect your business?""; ""Business context analysis""; ""Realigning your supply chain""; ""Outlook""; ""Cases in this chapter""; ""Case 5.1 The �mi adidas� mass customization initiative""; ""Case 5.2 Hilti: Gearing the supply chain for the future (A)"" |
| Summary |
The supply chain is at the heart of every successful business organization's decision-making process. This textbook explains how to create a winning supply chain management strategy by spotlighting how senior executives in European and US companies have turned their supply chains into strategic weapons designed to convert threats, risks and outside pressures into competitive advantages. Strategic Supply Chain Management contains twenty real-world cases, all of which have been field researched by a top author team and tested out in the classroom. Each case adopts an executive |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Business logistics -- Management
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Strategic planning.
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Business logistics -- Management
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Strategic planning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sundtoft Hald, Kim
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Seifert, Ralf W
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| ISBN |
9781136345586 |
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1136345582 |
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