E-Supply Chain: Using the Internet to Revolutionize Your Business

Supply chain has emerged as a major focus of business improvement efforts. Unfortunately, not all firms have taken advantage of the concept, resulting in a large gap between successful e-commerce companies and failures. E-Supply Chain explains how the progress of e-commerce is dovetailing with the final stages of the supply chain evolution, and how to take advantage of it in business.

The authors show how the convergence of supply chain and e-commerce can catalyze the forging of advanced-level networks that will dominate future markets. In the first wave, some part of virtually every business will transfer to a cyber channel of distribution. In the second wave, networks targeting specific consumers will create new alliances across the full spectrum of supply. In the third wave, advanced networks will form global ""value chain constellations"" that will become the norm for most future industries.

Charles C. Poirier

Charles C. Poirier is a partner in the CSC National Supply Chain Practice, one of the world’s largest information technology and management consulting firms. An industry veteran with over forty years of experience, he has held a variety of management positions, including senior vice president of manufacturing and marketing at a Fortune 100 company. He is also an adjunct professor at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the author of Business Partnering for Continuous Improvement, Avoiding the Pitfalls of Total Quality, and Supply Chain Optimization.

Michael Bauer

Michael Bauer is a partner in CSC’s Electronic Commerce Practice. He has worked with some the most successful companies in the world to add value, increase marketability, and raise profitability across their business processes. He is an author and frequent speaker on the topics of demand creation, order fulfillment, and application of advanced technology.

Books by the author: E-Supply Chain