Strategic Supply Chain Management

by Shoshanah Cohen

Agile, strategic supply chain management is a key competitive necessity in today’s no-room-for-error business arena. And few organizations have acquired more knowledge—and demonstrated better results—than the team at global management consultancy Pittiglio, Rabin, Todd, and McGrath (PRTM). In the breakthrough reference Strategic Supply Chain Management, two of PRTM’s leading consultants in this practice explain everything that corporate decision-makers need to know to create value and competitive advantage from their supply chains.

Genres: Business, Management, Nonfiction

316 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. Authors provide a clear framework for analysis, planning, and execution - highlighting areas where supply chain can provide competitive advantage in support of the overall business strategy.

[Yor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mis amigos una tarde de lectura recreativa es más que un placer para el intelecto y aprender de los mejores está al alcance de los mejores libros y autores.

Hoy tuve la oportunidad de leer este libro Strategic Supply Chain Management - The 5 disciplines for top performance por Shoshanah Cohen & Josepth Roussel.

Partiendo primero cuáles son las 5 disciplinas clave que los autores desean compartir y reforzar como tendencias fuertes, destacadas en el ámbito del área de Compras Corporativas.

Core Discipline 1: View your supply chain as a strategic asset.

Core Discipline 2: Develop an End-to-end process architecture

Core Discipline 3: Design Your Organization for Performance

Core Discipline 4: Build the Right Collaborative Model

Core Discipline 5: Use Metrics to Drive Business Success

Este es un libro publicado en 2004, por lo que es interesante leer cómo en ese momento ocurrieron varios cambios de paradigmas y se redefinió el área de compras corporativas por una plataforma global al establecer lugares estratégicos que permitirán centralizar la toma de decisiones de la cadena de suministros fue tomando fuerza, partiendo de uno de los practicantes a gran escala como Avon, y luego otras empresas fueron observando la ganancia en eficiencia y manejo de sus negocios con estrategias que para los tiempos actuales en 2020 son comunes y de fácil asociación entre las multinacionales.

Este es un libro que me gustó, aunque ya han pasado más de 15 años, tiene varias lecciones que considero importante como las siguientes:
La importancia de las personas a integrar las nuevas tecnologías y tendencias de mercados, los resultados no vendrán solo por usar la tecnología depende de las persona que lo hagan posible.
Visualizar una organización no estática sin embargo envolvente con el mercado, con la misión de la empresa y sobre todo con los clientes.
La cadena de suministro del futuro tendrá un rol fundamental en conectar las necesidades de los clientes con las rutas más eficientes para llegar a dar resultados sorprendentes para los clientes.
Aprender a utilizar las métricas, y su debido entendimiento para la mejora continua.


Frases célebres del libro que me gustaría recordar.

"Next-generation supply chain strategies will support continuing improvements in productivity but also will drive the achievement of business-level outcomes with a strong focus on the customer. It will be important in the future to identify these objectives, which will include new revenue-generating services and time-to-market, time-to-volume, and customer-segment-specific capabilities.
In the future, the supply chain strategy also naturally will consider the supply chain as part of extended business architecture and consider key targeted outcomes with suppliers, customers, and partners as core elements".

"Your organizational design should not be static - it should evolve with your company".

"As you design your organization, keep in mind that technologies don´t deliver success - people do.


Seagate Technology Profile: Real-time response to demand.
Seagate's ambitious goal is to ship to real-time change in demand - not to plans or forecasts.

[Mohamed Yehia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will like the books that are wrote in a clear interesting way like this one. The book is made by consultants documenting their experience in helping their clients raising their supply-chains to higher levels & fixing their chronic problems that effect their companies position.

My main benefits from the book are:
1. SCOR framework that they proved to be a rich one in diagnosing supply chains.
2. Decent way to configure SC based on five criteria.
3. Change road map to companies supply chains.

[Connor Hillson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Required for MBA, but actually helpful

I was not expecting to find this book very helpful, but it surprised me. It's shockingly quite an engaging book

[Lora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Currently reading...the english version.

[VENKATRAMAN C K · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first edition was very difficult to read...but the second one is a much improved one.