KlappentextWhile procurement has become far more effective at negotiation, cost cutting, and contract management, few supply chains are meeting their strategic potential. Now, two supply chain thought leaders distill all that's been learned about strategic sourcing, helping you orchestrate supply chains to create differentiation, increase value, and sustain competitive advantage.
Presenting the newest research and practitioner experiences, they show how to transform the supply chain activities that have the greatest upside potential. You'll start by learning how the field's leaders are building more effective strategic sourcing teams and managing them more effectively. Next, the authors guide you in moving toward increased customer-centricity; aligning with Tier 1 suppliers to promote shared long-term profitability; and systematically redesigning even the most complex global supply network.
You'll find new best practices for protecting against potential supply chain disruptions from any source; anticipating shorter product lifecycles and other challenges; evaluating potential opportunities to reshore, and more. Throughout, this guide focuses relentlessly on helping supply leaders deliver value, gain a true strategic role, and take their seat at the table.
Develop stronger, more resilient supplier relationships
Build partnerships where buyers and suppliers can truly rely on each other
Learn from all that's been learned about global sourcing
Reach out to the world for great ideas, components, design, process, and R&D
Protect against rapid price fluctuations in key commodities
Use futures, options, and purchasing strategies customized for changing environments
Integrate the most advanced technology into your mindset and practices
Leverage today's highest-value technologies in key supply management processes
The executive's guide to sustaining competitive advantage and mitigating risk in complex supply networks
Strengthen alignment throughout your supply chain, and with key suppliers
Build a more customer-centric, demand-driven supply chain
Cutting-edge research, practical experiences, and new lessons from UPS, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Apple, and other leaders
This book can help any senior manager transform sourcing and procurement into a key competitive advantageand keep it that way.
Two leading researchers and consultants show how to apply advanced strategic sourcing to significantly improve supply chain efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. Informed by their insights, you can go beyond mere cost-cutting and contract management to redesign and orchestrate your entire multi-tier supply chain.
Walter L. Wallace and Yusen Xia demonstrate how to bring together multiple business disciplines related to sourcing and procurement, strengthen critical buyer-supplier relationships, and systematically improve visibility and accountability. Throughout, you'll find new best practices and innovations for all supply chain functionsfrom e-procurement to financial hedging.
ZusammenfassungCompanies of all sizes are seeking to transform their procurement and supplier relationship management processes: activities that have a tremendous upside potential for improved supply chain effectiveness and efficiency. Now, two leading consultants and researchers offer a comprehensive approach to creating customer value through strategic sourcing and procurement.
Unlike texts focused primarily on day-to-day operations and tactics, Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing focuses on helping senior executives and managers gain sustainable competitive advantage from their supply chains. You'll learn how to go beyond negotiation, cost-cutting, and contract management functions, and successfully lead the redesign and orchestration of multi-tier supply chains to drive maximum benefit for the entire organization. Drawing on their cutting-edge research, the authors show how to:
Bring together the multiple business disciplines whose work impacts sourcing and procurement
Use strategic sourcing techniques to create a more sustainable supply chain
Integrate the use of emission permits into your strategic sourcing programs
Manage procurement when the cost of raw materials fluctuates widely
Effectively utilize financial hedging in strategic sourcing
Deepen your understanding of contemporary buyer-supplier relationships
Implement strategic lead-time management
Increase visibility as a way to become more demand-driven
Take advantage of recent advances in e-sourcing and e-procurement
More effectively manage risk and uncertainty in your supply network
Make better outsourcing/insourcing decisions in global supply chains
