Supply Chain as Strategic Asset

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.