Name: Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model Third Edition
Author: Peter Bolstorff (Author), Robert Rosenbaum
ISBN: 9780814437537

Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model Third Edition book cover

Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model Third Edition

Author(s): Peter Bolstorff (Author), Robert Rosenbaum

Publisher: Amacom
Publication Date: 11 Dec. 2011
Edition: Third
Language: English
Print length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0814437532
ISBN-13: 9780814437537

Book Description

The Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) framework is a proven solution to the ever-present business struggle of strengthening and improving company-wide processes.

This leading cross-industry model for maximizing efficiency provides you with a lasting competitive advantage, revealing the key to achieving flawless production in a compressed timeline. By incorporating the proven Supply Chain Council DCOR and CCOR models to expand the process scope, Supply Chain Excellence offers a comprehensive look at the entire value chain process and provides you with a step-by-step guide for implementing an improvement strategy that will help your organization succeed.

With examples and insights from nearly one hundred supply chain improvement projects to draw from, you will learn how to:

identify the causes of misalignment in their company;
utilize a scorecard to analyze and evaluate their current processes;
strategize, prioritize, and implement a new method;
incorporate management techniques such as Six Sigma and Lean;
and quantify the financial value of supply chain improvement.

Supply Chain Excellence also adapts the use of the SCOR model for an SAP environment, global enterprises, and small businesses to help any organization keep its sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization.

Editorial Reviews

Review

..”.third edition includes material that addresses current hot topics in supply chain management…serves as an excellent read for anyone involved in the supply chain process.” “–Quality Progress “

From the Inside Flap

For any supply chain, misalignment–the failure of all elements to move as one–can mean poor service, high inventory, unexpected costs, constrained growth and profits, and a loss of market share. In a world that’s becoming more global, supply chain improvement is a more crucial skill than ever. Even if you operate a smaller business, having a proven, reliable system for keeping your supply chain running smoothly is essential if you want to keep up with the competition. A hands-on guide to achieving operational superiority, “Supply Chain Excellence” shows you, step-by-step, how to adapt the field-tested processes of the Supply Chain Council in your own organization. Thoroughly updated and now featuring examples from close to 100 projects, “Supply Chain Excellence” shows you how to: – Gain internal support by educating employees and executives – Put hard numbers to the financial value of change – Conduct the proper competitive analysis to define business opportunity – Align strategy, product flow, work flow, information flow, and system business requirements to focus on the right changes – Maximize your use of existing technology – Optimize Enterprise Resource Planning in your organization – Streamline your process analysis effort and develop a sustainable supply chain scorecard Now featuring a compressed project timeline conducive to global and small-business use–and guidance for applying SCOR processes in an SAP environment–the book includes SAP screen captures, sample deliverables, summaries of tasks, and key required executive behaviors, as well as helpful graphics and diagrams. “Supply Chain Excellence” gives you all the practical tools you need, whether you’re trying to improve the performance of an existing supply chain system or implement a new one. “Supply Chain Excellence” has long been the go-to resource for doing supply chain right. Comprehensive, practical, and utterly up-to-date, the third edition is your passport to utilizing the supply chain strategies that have been proven to work time and time again. PETER BOLSTORFF is President and CEO of SCE Limited (scelimited.com), which supports supply chain performance through education, coaching, and process expertise. An internationally recognized speaker, educator, consultant, and author, he is a former technical chair and two-term member of the Board of Directors with the Supply Chain Council and has been involved with the development of the SCOR model since its inception in 1996. ROBERT ROSENBAUM is an award-winning journalist with a specialty in manufacturing and supply chain management, and founder and President of The MarketFarm, which specializes in leveraging technical content. A partner in Supply Chain Excellence Education, the training arm of SCE Limited, he was the founding editor of the former Supply Chain Technology News.

From the Back Cover

The gold standard guide to adopting the superior, cross-industry methodologies developed by the Supply Chain Council for achieving operational superiority–the SCOR, DCOR, and CCOR Models–“Supply Chain Excellence,” now updated in a third edition, is a concise, practical instruction manual to doing supply chain correctly. Now adapted for use in an SAP environment, in global enterprises, and by small businesses, the third edition features a highly compressed timeline for using the SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) framework to plan and execute supply chain improvement. You’ll learn how to: – Implement changes to achieve sustainable competitive advantage – Define business opportunities along the supply chain by conducting the proper competitive analysis – Gain buy-in by educating your organization about supply chain improvement – Achieve a significant return on investment Featuring new examples from roughly 30 additional projects, the book identifies the most common contributors to supply chain misalignment, refines the use of the scorecard for better process analysis, extends the approach to encompass implementation and strategy, and quantifies the financial value of supply chain improvement to demonstrate its importance in achieving lasting competitive advantage. If you want to keep your sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization, you need a flawless, repeatable supply chain improvement approach that maximizes process efficiency and eliminates dysfunction. Thoroughly revised to reflect the latest thinking and most up-to-date strategies, the third edition of “Supply Chain Excellence” is an unparalleled guide for implementing best practices in supply chain management. Praise for Previous Editions of “Supply Chain Excellence”: “If you are involved in supply chain management, read this book!”– Paul Harmon, Executive Editor, Business Process Trends “The genius of the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) definition of supply chain management is that it simplifies the complexities of SCM down to five simple terms that everybody can agree on: plan, source, make, deliver, return.” — Industry Week “”Supply Chain Excellence” is a superb offering for organizations encountering their first supply chain difficulties, or for use as a detailed, practical how-to manual for properly managing a supply chain. It provides valuable guidance for forming a project team, gaining top management commitment, conducting environmental analyses, and managing a critical-to-quality, strategically driven project with the potential for huge payoffs.” — Quality Progress

About the Author

PETER BOLSTORFF is President and CEO of SCE Limited, which supports supply chain performance through education, coaching, and process expertise. ROBERT ROSENBAUM, an award-winning journalist, is founder and President of The MarketFarm, which specializes in leveraging technical content. He was the founding editor of the former “Supply Chain Technology News.”

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