Managing Supply Chain Networks: Building Competitive Advantage in Fluid and Complex Environments,Used

USE KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION TO MAXIMIZE VALUE FROM TODAYS SOPHISTICATED, FASTCHANGING SUPPLY NETWORKS Build integrated, complementary supply networks that work together to win Accelerate the cycle from needs identification to product/service launch to customer experience Create longterm strategy adherence to the business that competes in fluid environmentsLeading companies are developing powerful new techniques for managing todays complex, fluid supply networks. Now, Alexandre Oliveira and Anne Gimeno help you apply these techniques to embed greater agility, resilience, speed, and intelligence throughout your own supply chain network.Oliveira and Gimeno review how supply chains have changed, how they will change, and the radically new challenges and opportunities arising from these changes. Next, they show how to drive value by capturing and sharing your networks knowledge far more effectively, and using it to drive innovations that strengthen the entire network.Going far beyond previous models, they guide you in improving interactions across all knowledge areas, functional supply chain building blocks, business structures, tactics, and external elementsincluding suppliers, customers, service providers, competitors, and noncompetitors.Today, individual companies dont compete: their supply chain networks do. Winning businesses must be capable of sensing and anticipating market shifts, and rapidly aligning their networks in response. In a word, their networks must be wiser.In this guide, leading practitioners Alexandre Oliveira and Anne Gimeno show how to embed actionable wisdom throughout your own complex supply network. Youll learn how to create multicompany structures that promote the longterm success of your entire network, and how to accelerate innovation by leveraging knowledge and ideas from all network sources.Using practical examples, Oliveira and Gimeno demonstrate how to evolve more resilience and elasticity, building a network that can respond more quickly and coherently to any new risk, opportunity, problem, or trend.Managing Supply Chain Networks is invaluable to any strategist, executive, manager, or advanced student who wants to drive greater value and competitiveness from a complex supply chain network. PRESENTING AN EVOLUTION TO PORTERS FIVE FORCES MODELDetailing how to add value to shareholders and stakeholders in highly competitive business environments BUILDING INNOVATIONENABLED KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP INTO YOUR NETWORKStrengthening longterm knowledge development and retention across your network IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS THAT INCREASE NETWORK RESPONSIVENESSOptimizing connections, architecture, functions, and human interactions MANAGING RISK MORE SUCCESSFULLY IN NETWORK ENVIRONMENTSTranscending limited firmcenteredrisk management strategies PROMOTING GREATER COLLABORATION ACROSS YOUR NETWORKUsing visibility, vendor selection, culture, governance, and other methods