Strategic Supply Management

This is a must read for any procurement or supply management professional; finance, operations, and engineering functional managers; executives who interact on a regular basis with supply management professionals; and academics and students.

Key Features:

• Summarizes what a leading supply management organization looks like today, completely defines strategic supply management best practices, and provides a clear understanding of the leadership required to achieve a set of demanding supply objectives and global supply chain strategies
• Explains the four critical enablers underlying strategic supply management, all of which are prerequisites to the pursuit of more sophisticated supply management activities: 
  • organizational design
  • measurement
  • information technology
  • human resources
• Discusses how to develop global supply chain strategies and follow supply management best practices that can lead to sustained competitive advantage
• Presents information about specific concepts, processes, supply management best practices, tools, and real company examples in each chapter and includes end-of-chapter questions to help facilitate discussion and learning