A False Start; The Network Context; In Summary; ; Conceptualizing a New Business Model; The Network Big Picture; Network Mapping; Focus First on the Customer; Competitive Competencies; Thinking Outside the Box; In Summary; ; Collaborating Network Relationships; Designing the Core Network; Managing Risk in Trading Partner Relationships; In Summary; ; Designing a Competitive Network; Linking the Trading Partners; APICS Supply Chain Management Principles; Evaluating a Competitive Network Design; Network Partitioning to Reduce Landed Cost; The Velocity Principle; The Variability Principle; In Summary; ; Overcoming Information Boundaries; Scoping the Information System Discussion; Assessing the Information System as an Asset or a Liability; Basic Data Structures; Partitioned Networks; Tracking and Tracing; Competing with Parallel Information Flows; Industry Standards and Best Practices; In Summary
; ; Leading Change in Performance Measurement; Moving From a Cost View to a Throughput View; Business Process Orientation; Defining a Global Performance Measure; Negotiate-Communicate-Educate; Negotiate-Communicate-Educate; Negotiate-Communicate-Educate; Project Management for Performance Measures; In Summary; ; Operating a Competitive Network; An Introduction to Network Operations; Evaluating a Competitive Network Operation; The Impact of Network Partitioning on Working Capital; The Vocalize Principle; The Visualize Principle; In Summary; ; Planning for Network Operations; Setting a Network Context for Planning; Basic Network Operations; Network Operations Complexity; Forecasting; Forecasting Things Right; Practical Push Planning Techniques; Practical Pull Planning Techniques; Closing the Network Planning Loop; In Summary; ; Generating Top Line Growth and Bottom Line Profit; The Value Principle; Optimizing
The Network; First Level Network Optimization; Second Level Network Optimization; Third Level Network Optimization; Matching Demand with Supply; The Top and Bottom Line; In Summary; ; A New Start; Symptoms of a Deeper Problem; Prepare for Success; Navigating an Aggressive Course; A New Start; Epilogue; ; Appendix A: The Network Blueprint; ; Appendix B: Bibliography
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