Supply Chain Excellence
Subtitle: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780814407301
Subjects: Purchasing & supply management; Entrepreneurship; Business logistics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Strategic Planning; Management; Engineering - Industrial; Management - General
First sentence: Peter was introduced to the Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR) in the fall of 1996 as part of a newly formed corporate "internal consulting" team for Imation, which had just been spun off from 3M.
Description: "Whether you're engineering a new supply chain or trying to improve the performance of an existing one, Supply Chain Excellence helps you navigate through each step of the SCOR Project Roadmap, including: educating the enterprise, gaining internal support, establishing the metrics that will determine the project's level of success, and aligning strategy, materials, work, and information flow.".

"Showing you how to organize the entire effort for success, each chapter of Supply Chain Excellence focuses on a different stage of the project lifecycle and includes sample deliverables, summaries of tasks, key required executive behaviors, graphics, and diagrams.

Use tips based on the authors' 30 successful implementations using the unique SCOR Project Roadmap supplement the text, illustrating actions such as maximizing your supply chain's use of existing technology, assimilating mergers and acquisitions, and improving sales and operations planning."--BOOK JACKET.