How today’s leading organizations are creating long-term competitive advantage through operational innovation

Strategic Supply Chain Management, by PRTM directors Shoshanah Cohen and Joseph Roussel, moves beyond business cycles and shifting management emphases to examine how organizations are building the core competencies today that will determine tomorrow’s competitive landscape. As we are thrust head-first into the 21st century, this timely book outlines the techniques, technologies, and rules that will allow organizations to confront the challenges—and take advantage of the opportunities—that are right around the corner.

Strategic Supply Chain Management examines the five core disciplines that arise from best practices and advanced systems in supply chain management:

• View your supply chain as a strategic asset and establish your organization’s basis for competition
• Develop an end-to-end process architecture and manage your business practices and supporting information systems to continuously address the needs of your organization
• Design your organization for performance and ensure you have the skills to develop and manage the complex supply chains of the future
• Build the right collaborative model and continuously improve your relationships with supply chain partners
• Use metrics to drive business success and ongoing improvement within the supply chain

In the final chapter, the authors address the challenge of how to embark on redesigning the supply chain as business conditions change. Beginning with supply chain strategy, adjust your priorities, then identify the changes needed to support your objectives. Finally, use a phased approach for implementing the change.

In its appendices, the book includes supply chain research conducted by PRTM’s benchmarking subsidiary, The Performance Measurement Group, LLC.

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“The five core principles behind this book are deceptively simple. Yet few supply chain practitioners have the authors’ depth and breadth of experience.

"Cohen and Roussel take the topic far beyond the theoretical, offering numerous examples of how companies have adopted and adapted these principles. Senior executives can use this book to structure a supply chain strategy that will result in immediate top- and bottom-line benefits.”