Product Description

This text explains the Internet revolution and how companies can take advantage of its potential to transform their businesses into market leaders. It presents a step-by-step process for establishing joint efforts and combining best practices to create new business models. The book illustrates the changes necessary in each of the major functions of a typical firm, from supply chains through full network application of practices with e-commerce and beyond.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1774757 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-31
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .79" h x 6.44" w x 9.42" l, 1.07 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 236 pages

Book Info
A text revealing how companies can form alliances that combine the supply chain and the Internet to become more versatile and offer increased customer satisfaction. Outlines the basic changes needed in each area of a typical firm, including purchasing, marketing and sales, information technology, planning, manufacturing, and logistics.

From the Publisher
E-SUPPLY CHAIN, the most advanced and up-to-date publication of its kind, reveals how companies can form the necessary business alliances to combine the power of supply chain and the Internet—two of most versatile and effective business tools of the new century.

E-Supply Chain shows how leading companies have forged a one- to two-year lead over competing supply chain networks using the marriage of supply chain and e-commerce to achieve market dominance. The authors present a step-by-step process for establishing joint efforts and combining best practices to create an unbeatable network of seamless response to specific business customers or consumer groups. Rich in details and action studies, E-Supply Chain is a hands-on guide to implementing the changes necessary in each of the major functions of a typical firm—purchasing, marketing, sales, customer service, engineering, planning, manufacturing, logistics, and more. The authors detail how the e-supply chain network evolves to become a global "value chain constellation," destined to dominate specific markets and industries while always keeping the satisfaction of the customer or consumer as the ultimate goal.

Combined with Poirier’s two earlier books, Supply Chain Optimization and Advanced Supply Chain Management, E-Supply Chain completes the trilogy that can take any organization from its beginning stages to full application of advanced supply chain and e-commerce techniques.

About the Author
Charles C. Poirier

Charles C. Poirier is a partner in the CSC National Supply Chain Practice, one of the world’s largest information technology and management consulting firms. An industry veteran with over forty years of experience, he has held a variety of management positions, including senior vice president of manufacturing and marketing at a Fortune 100 company. He is also an adjunct professor at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management and the author of Business Partnering for Continuous Improvement, Avoiding the Pitfalls of Total Quality, and Supply Chain Optimization.

Michael Bauer

Michael Bauer is a partner in CSC’s Electronic Commerce Practice. He has worked with some the most successful companies in the world to add value, increase marketability, and raise profitability across their business processes. He is an author and frequent speaker on the topics of demand creation, order fulfillment, and application of advanced technology.

Books by the author: E-Supply Chain