Hands-on guidance for creating competitive advantages through
strategy realization
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.
strategy realization
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.
Cuprins
Preface xiiiAcknowledgments 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
Despre autor
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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