This book is a discussion of how new costing and profit analytics are used to produce stellar profit gains. It's a collection of the most useful and important techniques leaders and owners of wholesale or distribution companies can use to build profits and cash flow. The new technology of Line Item Profit Analytics (LIPA) opens new doors for executives and managers to directly measure and control the profit generated in every increment of their businesses. Combined with Quantum Profit Management--the system of strategies and tactics driven by the information profit analytics reveals--companies have produced record earnings and industry-leading growth. For the first time, it's literally possible to make money on every single activity in a business. This gives companies the opportunity to dominate their markets in ways that have never been possible. With dozens of examples of advanced profit reports, the book illustrates how analytics are used to translate information into action that produces stellar profit gains. This book is not a course on creating analytics--it's a course on what to do with them to get fast, significant, and sustainable results. An easy read, the book documents the best of this knowledge so that you can employ it in your quest for extraordinary profit gains...

Without supply chain our lives today would hardly be the same. Companies and organizations profit from higher cost efficiency and turnover, consumers profit from more affordable products and services to name just a few of the advantages supply chain brings. There are many different business processes in the supply chain which work together to achieve these advantages. This booklet provides an overall explanation of the business processes in the supply chain and how they are interlinked with each other. It is a guide for everyone who wants to understand the supply chain in its completeness. The business process diagrams of the processes described are available for download at www.criticalea.com/supplychain.

Wholesale Distributors in the knowledge-based lines of trade (Electrical, Automation, Fluid Power, Power Transmission, Industrial Mill Supplies, Plumbing and Heating and other) face a tough decision. As market forces, demographics, alternative channels and the internet push against their half-century old model of value-added services wrapped into margins, wholesale distributors must change revenue model or perish. This manifesto brilliantly outlines the thoughts of Distribution Expert Frank Hurtte on the need for modifying current strategies.

Avoid having too little or too much stock on hand with this guide to inventory management and optimization with SAP ERP! Start by managing the stock you have through replenishment, goods issue, goods receipt, and internal transfers. Then plan for and optimize your future by avoiding bottlenecks, setting lead times, using simulations, and more. Finally, evaluate your operations using standard reports, the MRP Monitor, and KPIs. Keep your stock levels just right! Key Inventory Processes: Understand essential business processes like good receipt, goods issue, internal stock transfer, reservations, and using materials documents. Then map these processes to their specific master data settings like service levels and lot size. Planning and Optimization: Learn how the entire supply chain influences inventory planning, and jump into methods and tools for inventory optimization including SAP ERP Add-On tools for simulations and inventory cockpits. Monitoring, Reporting, and Analysis: Employ Logistics Information Systems methods to control and monitor inventory, use the MRP Monitor for inventory analysis, and calculate key indicators to measure inventory performance. Highlights: Inventory management Inventory optimization Supply chain management Goods receipt/goods issue (GR/GI) Stock transfer SAP ERP Add-Ons Lot size Demand planning Material requirements planning (MRP) MRP Monitor Key performance indicators (KPIs)

The Lean Supply Chain: Managing the Challenge at Tesco explores how UK multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer Tesco addresses the challenge of managing its supply chains. The book examines how Tesco has used lean thinking, loyalty and simplicity to achieve its dominant position. It shows how Tesco's senior leadership made a simple but game-changing decision to focus the business on its customers rather than the conventional approach of 'competing with our competitors' and asks whether the approach to managing the supply chain needs to be adapted to deal with current challenges that Tesco faces. The authors look at how the retailer developed and maintains one of the most effective supply chains in the world. The Lean Supply Chain demonstrates Tesco's most successful strategies through real life examples, drawing upon the authors' deep knowledge of how Tesco has developed and succeeded from both an academic and practitioner perspective. It includes an assessment of how Tesco is dealing with current challenges and market changes, including its successful rollout of online shopping and convenience stores as well as how it is attempting to maintain its position as the UK's largest retailer.

Supply chain competence affects your bottom-line in more direct ways than you might realize. In this book we reviewed the role of controlling cost of sales through supply chain competencies and its effect on the corporate financial statements. The balancing act of maintaining a high level of service and low costs is becoming harder for supply chain managers as businesses try to meet the growing customer mantra of "more for less." This pressure comes at a time when business is becoming more global, supply chains are lengthening, and competition is on the rise. Although this challenge is not new, the outlook is that it will intensify as a number of factors; economic, regulatory and market-driven become more acute. Consequently, supply chain performance will have increasingly significant impact on overall business success.

This book on sustainable business is for advanced business education students as well as practicing managers and executives interested in sustainability or government relations. Sustainability is a global business megatrend with ramifications across all functional areas of business, from finance to supply chains. This book addresses an under-developed topic in the field, specifically, the roles of legal compliance, lobbying, and corporate governance mechanisms as barriers to, and opportunities for, sustainable business. Written by an expert in sustainable law and policy, the book offers concise and accessible discussions of the legal frameworks relevant to sustainable enterprise and perspectives on the sustainable use of corporate legal resources. Part I: Legal Compliance explains the relevant operational requirements of the laws affecting sustainability in the business arenas of supply chain management, marketing, and operations management. Part II: Lobbying explains the legacy of the United States Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on the role of corporations in the election process. Additionally, Part II explains how corporations can influence the process for regulatory rulemaking. Part III: Corporate Governance explains the role of the C-suite and shareholders in shaping the sustainability policy of large organizations

An invaluable resource for entrepreneurs setting up their own businesses, this book provides a clear explanation of the way in which distribution coordinates the activities of the producer or manufacturer and various intermediaries in order to make the product or service available to customers at the right place, at the right time, and in the right quantity. Key features include case studies of actual businesses, chapter summaries and self-assessment questions, and informative graphs and tables. In this edition, topics include: the definition of distribution, the evolution of the South African distribution system, supply chain, channel design, logistics management, and electronic marketing channels, among others.