Strategic Supply Chain Management

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Routledge, May 2, 2013 - Business & Economics - 288 pages

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 leadership perspective to illuminate the real dilemmas faced by managers. The authors draw on their extensive classroom and industry experience to ensure that the writing style is geared towards an executive education readership.

This elite case package will provide a complete teaching resource and authentic learning experience for MBA and executive education classes in Supply Chain Management throughout the world.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Learning with cases
2
1 Thinking strategically about supply chain management
3
The extended supply chain
4
From a function to a vital company process
5
From operations to finance leadership innovation and risk management
6
An integrative view of a companys business model
7
Note
9
Case 34 ABB transformers
120
Creating a virtual supply chain A
131
Creating a virtual supply chain B
140
Chapter notes
142
4 Making the supply chain work
143
Managing relations across companies
145
Challenging customer demands and reducing supply chain complexities
147
Sharing risks and rewards with customers and suppliers
148

Key driver of your business model
10
Vertically and horizontally integrated supply chains
11
Identifying and managing supply chain risks
14
Designing supply chain response strategies
16
Bringing strategic flexibility into supply chains
17
Cases in this chapter
18
Sustaining growth in challenging times
21
Providing design to delivery solutions to the global apparel industry
44
Quality on the boardroom agenda A
66
Quality on the boardroom agenda B
75
Chapter notes
80
3 Handling dilemmas in the supply chain
82
The supply chains global footprint
84
The flow and stock of capital in the supply chain
86
Organizing the supply chain processes
87
Innovation through the supply chain
89
Cases in this chapter
90
Delivering innovation through the supply chain A
93
Transforming the supply chain to support new realities B
102
King Project
113
Fasttrack project management with suppliers
149
Cases in this chapter
150
Running for fasttrack project execution
153
Reinventing Oracles gotomarket strategy
163
Consolidating distribution A
176
Consolidating distribution B
189
Buyersupplier evolution?
196
Going Asia A
206
Going Asia B
215
Chapter notes
218
5 Sustaining supply chain alignment
220
Business context analysis
222
Realigning your supply chain
224
Outlook
229
Case 51 The mi adidas mass customization initiative
231
Gearing the supply chain for the future A
252
Reflections and outlook B
265
Chapter notes
268
Subject Index
270
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Strategic Supply Chain Management
Carlos Cordón,Kim Sundtoft Hald,Ralf W. Seifert
Limited preview - 2013
Strategic Supply Chain Management
Carlos Cordón,Kim Sundtoft Hald,Ralf W. Seifert
No preview available - 2012
Strategic Supply Chain Management
Carlos Cordón,Kim Sundtoft Hald,Ralf W. Seifert
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About the author (2013)

Carlos Cordón is LEGO Professor of Process Management at IMD, Switzerland. He is an expert on business models, value chains and process management and is the co-author of The Power of Two: How Smart Companies Create Win–Win Customer–Supplier Partnerships that Outperform the Competition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Kim Sundtoft Hald is Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Performance Management at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He has published in leading international academic journals, including Industrial Marketing Management, Management Accounting Research and Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, and has contributed to several books, such as Leading in the Top Team: The CXO Challenge and Managing the Global Supply Chain.

Ralf W. Seifert is Professor of Operations Management at IMD and Professor of Technology and Operations Management at the College of Management of Technology at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is director of the Mastering Technology Enterprise (MTE) programme and has designed and directed numerous company-specific general management programmes. Based on his work with companies, Professor Seifert has co-authored more than 30 case studies winning five case awards. He continues to actively research issues of supply chain strategy, supply chain finance and technology management and has more than 50 articles and international conference presentations to his credit

Bibliographic information

TitleStrategic Supply Chain Management
AuthorsCarlos Cordón, Kim Sundtoft Hald, Ralf W. Seifert
Editionillustrated
PublisherRoutledge, 2013
ISBN1136345582, 9781136345586
Length288 pages
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