The Supply Chain Differentiation Guide A Roadmap to Operational Excellence [Paperback]

The importance of supply chain management has increased over the last few decades. Today, entire supply chains are competing with each other instead of individual companies. As such, supply chain management has become a way for companies to set themselves apart from competing companies and their supply chains. Interestingly, supply chain management mainly focuses on efficiency-oriented topics rather than effectiveness-driven issues, in particular the design of supply chains from manufacturing sites downstream, instead of upstream from the customer.

The Supply Chain Differentiation Guide offers a modern approach to supply chain management. While for many years one-size-fits-all approaches to supply chain management were very common, the current efforts of managers and academics alike focus on the simultaneous management of multiple supply chains. Despite the interest of the business sector in the management of multiple supply chains, academia has largely neglected this topic to date. The Supply Chain Differentiation Guide addresses this shortcoming, introducing both established and cutting-edge management methods to the context of supply chain differentiation and providing inspirations for how to improve corporate operations.

This book offers a modern approach to supply chain management. It introduces renowned as well as recent management methods to the context of supply chain differentiation and provides inspirations for how to improve corporate operations.A: Conception of the supply chain guideline: Introduction.- Why do we need a SCD guideline?.- Supply chain assessments.- Principles and advantages of the supply chain differentiation approach.- Structure of SCD-Guide.- Scalability of the approach.- Morphological box for SCD.- Example cases.- Challenges of an application of the supply chain assessment.-? B: Description of TO-BE supply chain: SCD-Guide preparation: Internal analysis: company strategy.- External analysis: companlÁ