Building the Strongest Total Business Network.
This book illustrates how companies that create, distribute, and sell products or services can join forces to establish a supply network with an unbeatable competitive advantage. The authors explain how companies can successfully employ partnering, rather than working on improvements in isolation, to identify high opportunity initiatives across a total supply network. By applying key resources on focused opportunities and sharing the resulting savings, members of the network get larger results, faster, as well as funding for future efforts.
The book offers survival tools for companies of all sizes and describes "share groups" of smaller companies that can compete with the volume leverage of large corporations. By analysing their shared supply chain and pooling their available resources, these "share groups" can find hidden savings to protect their profit margins and remain competitive in today's marketplace.
The book includes case studies that show what a wide range of companies are actually doing to achieve supply chain optimisation, and uses examples including the Financing Division of General Electric, Dial Corporation, Navistar/Goodyear, and General Motors.
