Thursday, August 9, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Coming Soon! Common Sense Supply Management
Coming soon! Common Sense Supply Management - Tales From
the Supply Chain Trenches
In his new guide to supply management, author Dr. Tom DePaoli
offers no-nonsense strategies learned from his diverse career in many
organizations. Told in part via a story format, Common Sense Supply Management - Tales From the Supply Chain Trenches uses
real life examples to discuss what goes right, and often wrong, in the supply
chain management trenches. The stories
are told factually without any embellishing notes to distract the reader. By
carefully following this book’s accounts, supply management professionals can
learn a career’s worth of what to do and what not to do. DePaoli provides
practical lessons launched from real-life cases and tested in the unforgiving
supply chain management reality.
Like many good business leaders, the author places business
relationships first and foremost in his guide. “Supply management covers more
breadth and depth than any other discipline in an organization,” says DePaoli.
“It is the art of building multiple relationships.”
His book advances to tackle best practices, Lean Six Sigma,
and information-based negotiations. He includes an extensive chapter on
planning and strategy that prepares the reader for his multi-dimensional
approach to suppliers, offers proven tactics for testing and sourcing
suppliers, and is candid about the possible pitfalls of using international
sourcing. A stickler for robust, data-driven decisions, he shows the sorts of
metrics supply managers should be tracking. He discusses a range of
computer-based tools that allow professionals to conduct their business. He warns managers about adopting
slick-looking technologies that remain incompatible with an organization’s
culture.
He remains convinced that his story-telling strategy will
allow readers to learn more than what any textbook offers. “Some of the stories
are good management lessons,” says DePaoli. “Others are the result of having
great people work for me and teamwork, while some are the result of just hard
work and massive amounts of tough homework.” Supply chain management continues
to form the backbone of most companies.
Knowing how to orchestrate its complexity can give an organization a
strong competitive edge. The supply managers who are willing to take the
journey and possess the indomitable spirit necessary to succeed will greatly
benefit from this unorthodox but powerful guide.
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