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More About This Title Supply Chain as Strategic Asset: The Key to Reaching Business Goals
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How can your supply chain create competitive advantages and help achieve business goals? Drawing from the author's abundant research and analysis, this resourceful book shows how aligning the supply chain design with business strategy helps build competitive capabilities, prioritize capital investments, and takes your firm beyond the industry best-practices to create competitive advantages, not just competitive parity. Summarizing the current literature on business and supply chain strategies, this book provides path-breaking new direction to build your own winning supply chain strategy. Real-life cases show how this strategy alignment has produced results for the most successful companies and how it can be achieved in your firm.
- An overview of the concepts of business strategy, the current thinking on supply chain strategy and why it is inadequate to drive competitive advantage through supply chain design
- Process for establishing your own supply chain strategy to build competitive advantage
- The place of technology in creating business capabilities in modern corporations and why managing technology should be a core competence and an integral part of strategy planning
- Step-by-step direction and examples for creating strategy alignment and designing a supply chain that goes beyond supporting your operations
- Case studies including Wal-mart, Cemex, Kmart, HP, Dell, and others
Consolidating the lessons learned along with implementation guidance, Supply Chain as Strategic Asset is the must-read road map for designing a supply chain that will be vital in achieving your business goals.
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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.
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Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Chapter 1: Planning and Realizing the Goals of a Business Strategy 1
Strategy 2
Strategy Realization through Functional Capabilities 3
Strategy Planning: The Missing Link 5
Technology as the Enabler 8
Creating Competitive Advantage through Functional Capabilities 10
The Alignment of Business, Functional, and Technology Strategies 12
Chapter 2: Understanding Strategy 14
What Is Strategy? 14
Attributes of Strategy 19
Levels of Strategy Planning 25
The Strategic Horizon of Impact 28
Chapter 3: Concepts of Business Strategy 33
Porter’s Generic Strategies 34
The Resource-Based View 43
Capabilities-Based Strategies 46
Creating Advantages by Viewing the Corporation as the Sum of Its Components 51
Creating Advantages through the Value Chain 55
Developing Competitive Advantages through Capabilities 60
Understanding Advantage 67
Beyond the Business Strategy: Functional and Deployment Strategies 73
Chapter 4: Exploring Functional Strategy 75
What Is Functional Strategy? 77
Why Is the Functional Strategy Important? 86
Steps in Creating the Functional Strategy 89
Chapter 5: Current Thinking on Supply Chain Strategy 105
Current Thinking on Supply Chain Strategies 106
Understanding the Supply Chain Sphere of Influence 123
What Drives Your Supply Chain? 126
Chapter 6: Creating a Functional Supply Chain Strategy 139
The Effect of an Industry Segment on Supply Chain Design 140
The Effect of a Business Strategy on Supply Chain Design 142
The Effect of the Primary Driver on Supply Chain Design 143
Supply Chain Strategy and Business Strategy 148
Chapter 7: Technology Strategy 164
What Is Technology Strategy? 167
Components of a Technology Strategy 171
Why Develop a Technology Strategy? 179
Technology Strategy and Organization 185
Process Overview and Deliverables for Creating Technology Strategy 188
Chapter 8: Supply Chain Nirvana: Bringing It All Together 203
What Is Supply Chain Nirvana? 205
Defining a Supply Chain Strategy That Works 207
What Can a Well-Aligned Supply Chain Strategy Do for You? 226
How to Get There 236
Keeping It All Together 250
Appendix A: Sample Artifacts for Creating an Effective Supply Chain Strategy 255
Appendix B: An Overview of the Scope of the Supply Chain in Modern Corporations 272
Supply Chain Planning 275
Supply Chain Execution 276
Supply Chain Collaboration 279
Appendix C: The Supply Chain and Corporate Financial Performance 283
Cost of Sales 284
Inventory 287
Working Capital 289
Tune Your Supply Chain for Financial Performance 290
Notes 293
Bibliography 297
About the Author 299
Index 301
