Supply Chain as Strategic Asset : The Key to Reaching Business Goals

by Vivek Sehgal

• ISBN13: 9780470939673
• ISBN10: 0470939672
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-12-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Hands-on guidance for creating competitive advantages through strategy realizationHow 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 othersConsolidating 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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Planning and Realizing Goals of Business Strategy

Strategy

Strategy Realization through Functional Capabilities

Strategy Planning: The Missing Link

Technology as the Enabler

Creating Competitive Advantage through Functional Capabilities

Alignment of the Business, Functional, and Technology Strategies

Understanding Strategy

What Is Strategy?

Attributes of Strategy

Levels of Strategy Planning

Strategic Horizon of Impact

Concepts of Business Strategy

Porter's Generic Strategies

Resource-based View

Capabilities-based Strategies

Creating Advantages by Viewing the Corporation as the Sum of Its Components

Creating Advantages through Value Chain

Developing Competitive Advantages through Capabilities

Understanding Advantage

Beyond Business Strategy: Functional and Deployment Strategies

Exploring Functional Strategy

What Is Functional Strategy?

Why Is the Functional Strategy Important?

Steps in Creating Functional Strategy

Current Thinking on Supply Chain Strategy

Current Thinking on Supply Chain Strategies

Understanding the Supply Chain Sphere of Influence

What Drives Your Supply Chain?

Creating a Functional Supply Chain Strategy

Effect of Industry Segment on Supply Chain Design

Effect of Business Strategy on Supply Chain Design

Effect of the Primary Driver on Supply Chain Design

Supply Chain Strategy and Business Strategy

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 Technology Strategy

Supply Chain Nirvana: Bringing It All Together

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

Sample Artifacts for Creating an Effective Supply Chain Strategy

An Overview of the Scope of Supply Chain in Modern Corporations

Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Execution

Supply Chain Collaboration

Supply Chain and Corporate Financial Performance

Cost of Sales

Inventory

Tune Your Supply Chain for Financial Performance

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

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