Supply Chain Redesign: Transforming Supply Chains into Integrated Value Systems

Preface

Integrated supply chain management is now recognized as a core competitive strategy. As organizations continuously seek to provide their products and services to customers faster, cheaper, and better than the competition, managers have come to realize that they cannot do it alone; rather, they must work on a cooperative basis with the best organizations in their supply chains in order to succeed. When pressed to identify how to achieve this strategy, however, the path forward for managers is not clear. Numerous “solution providers” offer the “magic bullets” to supply chain integration; yet the results are never guaranteed.

In this book, we focus on the concept of the value system. We propose that by integrating the flows of information, ...