Supply Chain Management Institute

I have employed many of the fundamental building blocks of supply chain management spelled out in this book to transform a supply chain into a competitive weapon. If you want to deliver extraordinary business results in a challenging economic environment, study and apply the principles of this book.

Once again Douglas Lambert and his colleagues have given us fresh insights into how supply chains should be structured and managed to ensure enduring competitive advantage. Based on original research across many sectors the authors provide practical guidance on how to achieve excellence in the supply chain through building better and stronger relationships.

This book develops a robust model of supply chain management processes and properly defines them so that they can be managed. This enhanced understanding enables the enterprise to realize that supply chain management is too important to be just a function. It is everybody’s job

This book provides an entry into the opportunities afforded from a more sophisticated approach to supply chain management, covering the theory through to practical application, against the backdrop of 21st century supply chains and the issues they face.

In this book, we discovered a framework to help us manage business relationships and make cross-functional integration a reality. We strongly believe that managing relationships both with customers and suppliers represents an opportunity to achieve a competitive advantage in a market where products tend to become commodities.