In recent years, enterprises have recognized that supply chains exist to create customer value, and that customer value can be created throughout the supply chain. Supply Chain Redesign systematically introduces today's most important techniques, strategies, and tactics for optimizing supply chains. Two leading practitioners and business school faculty members identify key emerging trends and drivers in supply chain management; then show how to map existing supply chain networks, identify and integrate information flows within any organization, and discover the changes that will drive the greatest added value. They show how to enhance collaboration, integrating customers and suppliers to design products that support efficient supply chains; and how to make the most of strategic cost management techniques. Finally, drawing on their extensive consulting experience, as well as detailed case studies from GM and Nortel, the authors offer exceptional insight into key supply chain redesign success factors.

• Supply chain mapping techniques—Shows students how to describe and understand existing supply chains.

  • Gives students solid foundational knowledge about how conventional supply chains work and look before they are optimized.

• Supply chain cost issues—Reviews the costs associated with conventional supply chains, opportunities for savings, and costs associated with redesign initiatives.

  • Gives business students practical techniques and skills for assessing ROI in supply chain projects.

• Effective B2B e-commerce and Web-based strategies—Covers today's leading and emerging approaches to optimizing supply chains.

  • Teaches techniques and approaches that will be relevant in actual practice for many years to come.

• Supply chain-friendly product design—Shows how to design products that will be easy to build and deliver efficiently.

  • Gives business and engineering students crucial insight into how up-front product design decisions impact the entire supply chain.

• Two detailed case studies—Presents detailed coverage of supply chain redesign initiatives at both GM and Nortel.

  • Helps students understand the real supply chain management challenges faced by today's largest enterprises.

Preface.


1. Supply Chain Management: Transforming Supply Chains into Integrated “Value Systems”.

Supply Chain Management  [KEY TRADE TITLES]   (Decision Science)

ROBERT B. HANDFIELD is Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University. The author of Re-engineering for Time-based Competition, he has published over 25 academic and professional articles on a wide range of issues related to time-based competition, procurement and sourcing strategy, environmentally friendly materials management, and TQM.

Handfield was co-investigator on two National Science Foundation Research Grants: Integrating Suppliers into New Product/Process Development, and Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing: Integrating Environmental Issues into Product Design Planning and Manufacturing. His consulting clients have included Spartan Motors, Newport News Shipbuilding, Mead, Honeywell, Turkish Petroleum, ITT Avionics Division, and many others.

ERNEST L. NICHOLS is Associate Professor of Operations Management, Decision Sciences Area, and Director of FedEx Center for Cycle Time Research at Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. He is also Faculty Research Associate with the Global Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative at Michigan State University.

Dr. Nichols' research interests and Fortune 500 consulting experiences encompass a wide array of integrated supply chain management issues. He previously served as management consultant with Dialog Systems, Inc., where his responsibilities included consulting in the areas of purchasing and materials management as well as the design, development, and support of customized materials and logistics systems software.

Handfield and Nichols are the co-authors of Supply Chain Management.

Supply Chain Redesign delivers practical guidance for every aspect of supply chain redesign: mapping existing supply chains; identifying changes that promise the best ROI; intelligently leveraging new technologies; strengthening relationships with key partners; designing products that support lean supply chains; implementing new approaches to strategic cost management; and much more. Coverage includes key success factors, emerging trends, and detailed case studies from Nortel and GM.

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