Sehgal Supply Chain as Strategic Asset

The Key to Reaching Business Goals
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-470-93966-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Corporate F&A

Hands-on guidance for creating competitive advantages throughstrategy realization
How can your supply chain create competitive advantages and helpachieve business goals? Drawing from the author's abundant researchand analysis, this resourceful book shows how aligning the supplychain design with business strategy helps build competitivecapabilities, prioritize capital investments, and takes your firmbeyond the industry best-practices to create competitiveadvantages, not just competitive parity. Summarizing the currentliterature on business and supply chain strategies, this bookprovides path-breaking new direction to build your own winningsupply chain strategy. Real-life cases show how this strategyalignment has produced results for the most successful companiesand how it can be achieved in your firm.
* An overview of the concepts of business strategy, the currentthinking on supply chain strategy and why it is inadequate to drivecompetitive advantage through supply chain design
* Process for establishing your own supply chain strategy tobuild competitive advantage
* The place of technology in creating business capabilities inmodern corporations and why managing technology should be a corecompetence and an integral part of strategy planning
* Step-by-step direction and examples for creating strategyalignment and designing a supply chain that goes beyond supportingyour operations
* Case studies including Wal-mart, Cemex, Kmart, HP, Dell, andothers
Consolidating the lessons learned along with implementationguidance, Supply Chain as Strategic Asset is the must-readroad map for designing a supply chain that will be vital inachieving your business goals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sehgal, Vivek

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Chapter 1: Planning and Realizing Goals of BusinessStrategy.
Strategy.
Strategy Realization through Functional Capabilities.
Strategy Planning: The Missing Link.
Technology as the Enabler.
Creating Competitive Advantage through FunctionalCapabilities.
The Alignment of the Business, Functional, and TechnologyStrategies.
Chapter 2: Understanding Strategy.
What Is Strategy?
Attributes of Strategy.
Levels of Strategy Planning.
The Strategic Horizon of Impact.
Chapter 3: Concepts of Business Strategy.
Porter's Generic Strategies.
The Resource-based View.
Capabilities-based Strategies.
Creating Advantages by Viewing the Corporation as the Sum of ItsComponents.
Creating Advantages through Value Chain.
Developing Competitive Advantages through Capabilities.
Understanding Advantage.
Beyond Business Strategy: Functional and DeploymentStrategies.
Chapter 4: Exploring Functional Strategy.
What Is Functional Strategy?
Why Is the Functional Strategy Important?
Steps in Creating Functional Strategy.
Chapter 5: Current Thinking on Supply Chain Strategy.
Current Thinking on Supply Chain Strategies.
Understanding the Supply Chain Sphere of Influence.
What Drives Your Supply Chain?
Chapter 6: Creating a Functional Supply ChainStrategy.
The Effect of Industry Segment on Supply Chain Design.
The Effect of Business Strategy on Supply Chain Design.
The Effect of the Primary Driver on Supply Chain Design.
Supply Chain Strategy and Business Strategy.
Chapter 7: Technology Strategy.
What Is Technology Strategy?
Components of a Technology Strategy.
Why Develop a Technology Strategy?
Technology Strategy and Organization.
Process Overview and Deliverables for Creating TechnologyStrategy.
Chapter 8: Supply Chain Nirvana: Bringing It AllTogether.
What Is Supply Chain Nirvana?
Defining a Supply Chain Strategy That Works.
What Can a Well-aligned Supply Chain Strategy Do for You?
How to Get There?
Keeping It All Together.
Appendix A: Sample Artifacts for Creating an Effective SupplyChain Strategy.
Appendix B: An Overview of the Scope of Supply Chain in ModernCorporations.
Supply Chain Planning.
Supply Chain Execution.
Supply Chain Collaboration.
Appendix C: Supply Chain and Corporate FinancialPerformance.
Cost of Sales.
Inventory.
Tune Your Supply Chain for Financial Performance.
Notes.
Bibliography.
About the Author.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

VIVEK SEHGAL is Senior Director of Research at Manhattan Associates, a global, best-of-breed supply chain solutions provider. Prior to working with Manhattan, Vivek worked for Fortune 20 companies, including The Home Depot and GE, in various leadership roles in their supply chain technology groups. He has spoken at several industry events in the past and is a current member of the Science Advisory Board at Manhattan Associates, working with the industry to define new optimization opportunities in supply chain solutions. Vivek has authored Enterprise Supply Chain Management (Wiley) and several articles in supply chain journals. His blog is available at www.supplychainmusings.com.