With future competitive landscape shifting from competition between companies themselves to trading partner networks, understanding and mastering process design and change is becoming more critical than ever. In order to succeed, companies are starting to weave their key business processes into hard-to-imitate strategic capabilities that distinguish them from their competitors. Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices will help you "connect the dots" by offering insights on how to achieve greater integration within your supply chain networks and realize the performance possible with today's interaction economics. Based on exhaustive research of supply chains and newly successful networked corporations in the US and Europe, the authors demonstrate how your company can be successful in building an effective supply chain network. Prescriptive benchmarking models illustrate proven strategies, tactics, and methods for achieving a superior level of supply chain performance.
Author(s): Kevin P. McCormack, William C. Johnson
Edition: 1
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 240
Cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 14
THE AUTHORS......Page 18
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 21
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 22
2 BUSINESS PROCESS ORIENTATION — FROM VERTICAL INTEGRATION TO NETWORKED COMMUNITIES......Page 30
3 BPO AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE......Page 52
4 BPO AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT MATURITY......Page 66
5 THE EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN AND THE INTERNET —THE BRIDGE TO A SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK......Page 90
6 INTERACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NETWORKED ECONOMY......Page 108
7 UNBUNDLING THE CORPORATION: A BLUEPRINT FOR SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORKS......Page 124
8 THE CHALLENGES OF BUILDING A NETWORKED SUPPLY CHAIN......Page 152
Case 1 HERDING CATS ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN......Page 168
Case 2 ENVERA™: CREATING VALUE THROUGH SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY......Page 178
Appendix A FINAL SURVEY QUESTIONS......Page 190
Appendix B REGRESSION AND COEFFICIENT ALPHA ANALYSIS RESULTS......Page 206
Appendix C EXTENDED SUPPLY CHAIN VS. INTERNET USAGE CORRELATION RESULTS......Page 210
Appendix D SC NETWORK MODEL AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS —DETAILED SURVEY QUESTIONS......Page 212
GLOSSARY......Page 222
INDEX......Page 234
