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Named one of the ""10 Greatest Purchasing Books Ever Written"" by
SupplyChainOpz.comIn this sequel to the best-selling book, Straight
to the Bottom Line, the authors and their panel of distinguished
contributors outline the critical success factors for leading your
company to the next level in procurement practices and performance
and provide a proven transformation model to improve bottom-line
results. Next level supply organizations have the capability to
look at where they have been, understand the current state of
knowledge, and project what they need to do to be successful over
the next ten years. As supply organizations take a broader view of
their domain, entirely new areas of opportunity and growth begin to
take shape. This book defines those areas that require next level
thinking, including collaborating early and often with suppliers,
talent management, strategic sourcing, negotiations management, and
supply risk management beyond today's commonly accepted body of
knowledge. Next Level Supply Management Excellence is for anyone
interested in understanding what a more advanced state of
procurement and supply management will look like over the next ten
years. Part I includes six chapters that build the foundation and
provide the framework for moving to the next level of supply
management. Part II contains ten chapters that provide significant
detail about areas that essentially define a next level supply
organization. And Part III presents a variety of topics that will
add value to the reader's knowledge base and next level
professional agenda.
Most organizations today look for quick and easy solutions when
searching for cost savings and performance improvements. And
efforts to improve supply chain performance through forced price
reductions from suppliers or outsourcing often lead to a new set of
problems. Progressive organizations have begun to recognize the
need for a better and more permanent way to structure and manage
supply chains. One performance initiative for manufacturers,
service organizations, non-profit institutions and government can
be found in implementing Lean management philosophies throughout
the organization. As a philosophy, it is extremely robust meaning
it can perform without failure under a wide range of conditions in
any environment. Lean management is an end-to-end undertaking and
the focus of this book. While there are a number of valuable
resources that explain the Lean philosophy or focus solely on
operations or manufacturing, none provide an integrated, holistic
view and the "how to" needed to address today's relentless and
severe pressure to gain or improve a competitive advantage.
End-to-End Lean Management: A Guide to Complete Supply Chain
Improvement fills an important void in the current literature. It
shows how to apply Lean tools and techniques across the entire
supply chain: from suppliers, through transportation, into
operations, and through distribution to customers, with principles
applicable to all types of organizations. Managers across all
industries under constant pressure to find new sources of
competitive advantage and to demonstrate performance improvements
will find this book a timely and necessary resource. Organizations
must pursue a Lean model that best fits their unique requirements
and it is important to remember that Lean management is a
continuous journey. Become complacent and improvements will likely
begin to reverse themselves. Driven by the Lean philosophy and not
exclusively to the Toyota model, this unique book provides a broad
array of tools, techniques, measures and examples to support your
systematic and continuous Lean journey.
The popular press is loaded with stories about supply problems
affecting many industries. Extensive outsourcing of major portions
of a firm's value chain, relentless pressure from customers to
improve product and service functionality and to reduce costs
across almost every industry, and steep global competition have
combined to create a search for new sources of competitive
advantage. This search has led to supply management, the management
of suppliers, and improved supply base relationships to become hot
topics in the boardrooms of many organizations. This book presents
a roadmap and understanding of what it really means to practice
strategic supply management. No longer a transactional activity,
supply management is about creating and sustaining new sources of
competitive advantage. Dr. Trent articulates how to create a supply
management organization that you can count on to deliver reliable
sources of supply and, eventually, competitive advantage. He
purposely presents a holistic approach that focuses on breadth
rather than depth so that readers can see how the different
elements that comprise strategic supply management come together to
create a hard-to-duplicate source of competitive advantage.
Strategic Supply Management presents, in a concise manner, the need
for supply leadership, the organizational enablers that must be in
place, and the strategies and approaches that leading organizations
pursue to achieve advantages in price and cost, quality, cycle
time, technology, flexibility, and end customer responsiveness.
This is a must read for any procurement or supply management
professional; finance, operations, and engineering functional
managers; executives who interact on a regular basis with supply
management professionals; and academics and students.
Global competition and stakeholder demands are causing business
leaders to seek greater value from their supply chains, and
practitioners who think and act more like financial managers.
Designed for self-learning, training, and course instruction, this
book shows how to apply financial concepts, tools, and techniques
to the primary activities of supply chain managers. Supply Chain
Financial Management helps readers better understand and manage
these activities from a finance perspective and shows how to
present the impact of results in financial terms that corporate
executives expect. It bridges the divide between supply chain
management (SCM) and finance to meet the next level of demands for
improved performance and competitive advantage.
In an excellent addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa
series, Robert Trent Vinson recovers the important but largely
forgotten story of Albert Luthuli, Africa's first Nobel Peace Prize
winner and president of the African National Congress from 1952 to
1967. One of the most respected African leaders, Luthuli linked
South African antiapartheid politics with other movements, becoming
South Africa's leading advocate of Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent
civil disobedience techniques. He also framed apartheid as a crime
against humanity and thus linked South African antiapartheid
struggles with international human rights campaigns. Unlike
previous studies, this book places Luthuli and the South African
antiapartheid struggle in new global contexts, and aspects of
Luthuli's leadership that were not previously publicly known:
Vinson is the first to use new archival evidence, numerous oral
interviews, and personal memoirs to reveal that Luthuli privately
supported sabotage as an additional strategy to end apartheid. This
multifaceted portrait will be indispensable to students of African
history and politics and nonviolence movements worldwide.
For more than half a century before World War II, black South
Africans and "American Negroes"-a group that included African
Americans and black West Indians-established close institutional
and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for
the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements.
Though African Americans suffered under Jim Crow racial
discrimination, oppressed Africans saw African Americans as free
people who had risen from slavery to success and were role models
and potential liberators. Many African Americans, regarded
initially by the South African government as "honorary whites"
exempt from segregation, also saw their activities in South Africa
as a divinely ordained mission to establish "Africa for Africans,"
liberated from European empires. The Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey's
Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest black-led
movement with two million members and supporters in forty-three
countries at its height in the early 1920s, was the most
anticipated source of liberation. Though these liberation
prophecies went unfulfilled, black South Africans continued to view
African Americans as inspirational models and as critical partners
in the global antiapartheid struggle. The Americans Are Coming! is
a rare case study that places African history and American history
in a global context and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies.
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