The Supply Management Toolbox Shows How Supply Chain Management Has Become a Manufacturing Company’s Hottest Competitive Weapon.
Research and Markets has announced the addition of The Supply Chain Management Toolbox to their offering.
Every day companies leave billions of dollars in invisible, unrealised savings on the table because of poor supply chain management practices. Now the supply management Toolbox shows how supply chain management — the discipline of acquiring and moving material — has become a manufacturing company’s hottest competitive weapon.
In today’s highly competitive, global marketplace the pressure on organizations to find new ways to create and deliver value to customers grows ever stronger. Gradually, in emerging economies as well as mature markets, the power of the buyer has overtaken that of the customer.
The rules are different in a buyers’ market. In particular customer service becomes a key differentiator as the sophistication and demands of customers continually increase.
The Toolbox provides concrete, practical steps to improvement that any supply chain manager can take to successfully implement SCM best practices. The Toolbox is required material for logistics, purchasing, and procurement managers in hundreds of thousands of companies.
Acronyms and terms in Supply Chain and eCommerce:
Blueprint
Blueprint for a Supply Chain Management Application
Principles of SCM
Roadmap of Principles of Supply Chain Management
Managing your Supply chain
Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Audit/Review Tool
Evaluation of your SCM
Evaluating and assessing your Supply Chain
Features of the all-new 2003 edition:
-Hundreds of pages with easy-to-follow sections
-An extensive must-do checklist based on our experience implementing Supply Chain Management in over 40 industries
-New practical advice on awareness, planning, implementation, and review
-New commentary on delivering upon business value
-All-new “tuneup” section tailored to improve the performance of existing initiatives
-Fully updated throughout to take account of current Best Practices and policies, and the state of their use
-The Supply Chain Management Toolbox takes the guesswork out of Supply Chain Management
From raw materials to the marketplace, SCMNews keeps senior managers educated on the latest supply chain management software solutions.
