Global Macrotrends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management: Connecting the Supply Chain Inside and Out for Competitive Advantage
About this ebook
New research, practical priorities, actionable solutions
- Master new best practices for integrating demand, supply, and partners worldwide
- Bridge key “integration gaps” to maximize customer value and profit
- Improve performance in areas ranging from resource availability to returns
- From leading supply chain integration experts at the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business
In volatile, global environments, only well-integrated organizations can deliver superior customer outcomes and sustained profitability. Supply chain practitioners are on the frontlines of integration: they must bring together functions ranging from sales to logistics and a world of third-party suppliers. Integration is not easy, but proven solutions exist. In Achieving Supply Chain Integration, leading experts reveal what works and how to make it work.
The authors and contributors clarify what supply chain integration really means, and why it’s even more crucial than many companies realize. You’ll learn how to manage core conflicts that make integration difficult, so you can maximize value to both customers and your organization.
You’ll find example-based, research-driven insights for both internal and external integration, addressing issues ranging from culture to financial metrics. The authors share practical guidance on everything from building more innovative partner relationships to avoiding raw material shortages.
Whatever your supply chain or operations responsibilities, you need to integrate more effectively, and this guide will help you do it.
Supply chain integration can ensure a smoother, more efficient flow of products, and enable access to third-party resources and capabilities that would be costly or impossible to build internally. However, successful integration has proven challenging, especially as supply chains evolve to encompass even more external partners.
Achieving Supply Chain Integration shows how to prioritize which processes and functions to integrate and select integration strategies likely to deliver the greatest performance benefits. Drawing on actual successes and failures, UT’s researchers illuminate best practices and common mistakes. They present proven approaches to integrating sales, marketing, core supply chain functions such as procurement and logistics, and widely diverse partner relationships.
Whether you’re a practitioner or student, this guide will help you approach integration projects with “eyes open”–so you can mitigate risks and maximize value.
- Understanding what integration is and isn’t, and why it matters so much
- Bridging the integration gap to maximize value creation
- Fully leveraging information in internal and external integration
- Driving more value by integrating purchasing and logistics
- Aligning market, environmental, social, and political strategies
- Achieving deeper demand/supply integration
- Reducing product returns through better internal integration
- Building more innovative, collaborative supplier relationships
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About the author
Dr. Chad W. Autry is the William J. Taylor Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Autry’s professional background includes several years’ experience in retail and restaurant operations management. He has worked with and for numerous professional, civic, and governmental organizations related to supply chain process improvement, and has served in leadership positions for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), on the national Board of Directors of the Warehouse Education and Research Council (WERC), and on the local board of the National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM).
Dr. Autry’s research focuses primarily on socially responsible and collaborative interfirm and interfunctional relationships, their integration within and across firms, and the technological and social issues that support connectivity across multiple organizations simultaneously. He is author of over 70 research studies published in academic and professional outlets including the Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, and Strategic Management Journal. He is a co-author of the recent book, Global Macrotrends and Their Impact on Supply Chain Management, published by Pearson/Financial Times Press.
Dr. Autry is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Supply Chain Management and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Logistics, Decision Sciences Journal, and Logistique’ Management, in addition to editorial board responsibilities for several other academic and managerial publications.
Dr. Mark A. Moon is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business and former Head of the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management. Prior to joining the Haslam faculty in 1993, Dr. Moon earned his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also holds MBA and BA degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Moon’s professional experience includes positions in sales and marketing with IBM and Xerox. He teaches at the undergraduate, MBA, and Executive MBA levels, and teaches demand planning, forecasting, and marketing strategy in numerous executive programs offered at the Haslam College of Business. Dr. Moon’s primary research interests are in Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), demand forecasting, and buyer/seller relationships. He has published in many of the field’s leading journals and conference proceedings. He authored Demand and Supply Integration: The Key to World Class Demand Forecasting, and Sales Forecasting Management: A Demand Management Approach with Dr. John T. (Tom) Mentzer. His consulting clients have included Honeywell, Goodyear, Corning, Walgreens, Whirlpool, Lockheed-Martin, and many other firms.
