Bricks Matter - Hardcover

Cecere, Lora M; Chase, Charles W

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118218310 ISBN 13: 9781118218310

Publisher: Wiley & Sons, 2013

Synopsis

Get proven guidance to build a market-driven supply chain management system

Supply chain management processes have gradually shifted from a supply-driven focus to a demand-driven one in order to better synchronize demand and supply signals. Bricks Matter shows you how you can identify market risks and opportunities and translate these into winning tactics. Business cases highlight how business leaders are winning through market-driven approaches.

• Helps you understand how to apply the emerging world of predictive analytics for the better management of value networks
• Includes business cases illustrating the market-driven approach
• Reveals how businesses can identify market risks and translate these into supply-side tactics

As companies transition from demand-driven to market-driven approach, the focus in organizations shifts from one of vertical excellence to building strong market-to-market horizontal processes. Improve revenue by increasing market share, improve profit margins, and maintain high levels of customer service with the indispensable guidance found in Bricks Matter.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Corporate quality and process improvement initiatives are stalled. Satisfaction rates with current supply chain technologies have never been lower nor the failure rates as high. Yet, companies continue in the same patterns.

Sharing relevant stories of success and failure from seventy-five supply chain pioneers, Bricks Matter reveals the insights of what has been learned over the course of thirty years, providing insights on the evolution of processes, and prognosticating on the future of tomorrow's supply chains.

This groundbreaking resource explores why supply chains matter today and how companies need to prepare for the next decade. Authors Lora Cecere and Charles Chase Jr. present a look at the future of technologies, a future that already includes big data, new forms of predictive analytics, and the evolution of digital manufacturing, proving that the adoption of new technologies is part of winning the supply chain race.

Bricks Matter explores:

• Who does supply chain best?
• The new world of demand management
• Achieving market-driven capabilities
• Social: a new form of demand signal
• Building horizontal connectors
• Questioning the status quo

Manufacturing is coming full circle. Starting out as a craft focused on the production of individual units, it has now, through digital manufacturing, returned to the unit of one with the potential to improve supply chain agility. Learn how to create a world-class supply chain focused on continual improvement with the hands-on guidance found in Bricks Matter.

From the Back Cover:

Praise for Bricks Matter

"This book is like no other that has been written about supply chain management. It is a must-read for the supply chain leadership team."
—Marty Kisliuk, Global Operations Director, Agricultural Products Group, FMC Corporation

"Lora Cecere has been a key driver of supply chain strategies that force companies to think differently about how they work with their customers, partners, and cross-functionally within their own organizations. Here she teaches us to take a bold step to change our thinking and turn the supply chain around to focus on the consumer."
—Ann Dozier, Vice President, Fresh Dairy Direct IT, Dean Foods Company

"Today, the worlds of social business and supply chain management have many degrees of separation. I enjoyed working with Lora to understand what the future transformation of digital marketing to digital business could look like."
—Jeremiah Owyang, Research Director, Altimeter

"The journey to build the outside-in, end-to-end value network happens in stages and can only be led from the top based on value-based outcomes. This is a guidebook for leaders driving the transformation."
—Roddy Martin, industry thought leader

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1118218310
• ISBN 13: 9781118218310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320