Strategic Supply Chain Alliance (Best Practices in Supply Chain Management)

Author: John Gattorna
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book brings together world-renowned logistics professionals, management consultants, and scholars for the first time to exchange new perspectives and experiences on supply chain management technologies. It contains many previously unpublished materials, providing readers with a rare opportunity to identify hot issues, discover new strategies, and reveal key industry and market prospects. The book is divided into five parts, reflecting the main elements of strategic alliance models, including:
Market: Customer value creation and segmentation, as well as the fundamental principles of supply and demand integration;
Strategic Response: Involving channel strategy, supply chain structure and operations, and distribution management;
Culture: Organizational selection, focusing on the transmission of required feedback information, change management, and how it integrates with the strategic expression process;
Leadership: The role of leadership and necessary models to ensure market characteristics align with the strategic response systems the organization intends to adopt;
Logistics Information Implementation Factors: Understanding of technology and IT solutions, and how they facilitate or hinder the development and implementation of supply chain strategies.