The Purchasing Machine: How the Top Ten Companies Use Best Practices to Manage Their Supply Chains
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684857766 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Here, for example, described in step-by-step detail, are Chrysler's SCORE program and Honda's strategic sourcing strategy that saved the companies billions. Now supply management experts Dave Nelson, Patricia E. The authors provide concrete, practical steps to improvement that any supply chain manager can take to successfully implement these best practices. Based on a survey of 247 purchasing managers and more than 1,000 hours of interviews and on-site visits, the authors have selected ten top firms whose supply management pioneers excel at twenty "best practices." With cases and stories, Nelson, Moody, and Stegner show how these leading-edge purchasing departments at American Express, SmithKline Beecham, DaimlerChrysler, Harley-Davidson, Honda of America, IBM, John Deere, Whirlpool, Flextronics, and Sun Microsystems have put into place pathbreaking processes and procedures. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner show not only how leading companies recoup these savings through their mastery of target costing, value engineering, and supplier development, but how supply chain management -- the discipline of acquiring and moving material -- has become a manufacturing company's hottest competitive weapon. The authoritative nature of the authors' source material i
--Howard Rothman. The authors admit that their best-practice companies (American Express, Flextronics, Whirlpool, Harley-Davidson, IBM, John Deere, Honda of America, Sun Microsystems, SmithKline Beecham, and DaimlerChrysler) aren't perfect in all areas, as evidenced by the recent tribulations of the latter automaker. It also focuses on the leadership skills necessary to make them a reality. Moody, and Jonathan Stegner, presents a strong argument for the growing importance of this highly specialized facet of the manufacturing process--
sloutz said Meh.. I had to read this for a graduate level book review and didn't much enjoy it. It's redundant, and I'm not a fan of the writing style. I didn't learn anything from this book that wasn't already covered in our text (this is for a purchasing management class) and I have to find a way to eek out a 15 page paper. Initially I thought that maybe I was being unfairly judgmental because I wasn't reading the book by choice, but it seems that other reviewers fe. Packed With Knowledge! One of this book's mantras is that purchasing is a lot more important these days than in decades past. The authors, Dave Nelson, Patricia Moody and Jonathon Stegner, have spent decades in the field of purchasing. Their principal argument is that now that most companies outsource their equipment and even their parts (for example, very few Dell parts are made in-house), purchasing has become not only more important, but a potential source of incredible. And where is the beef? A Customer Based on an extensive research project this book promises a lot but delivers nothing. The first thing that you have to recognize is that there is hardly any structure at all. Repitions abound without adding any value. The style of writing is close to unbearable - they could have put the contents into a fourth of the pages. The cases are sketchy at best; they claim to offer best practices but are nothing new. The book tries to look into the future and
Previously he led the growth of Honda's Purchasing Division, which was the recipient of the Medal of Profes-sional Excellence from Purchasing Magazine. . Dave Nelson is Vice President, Worldwide Supply Management, for Deere & Company. With Patricia Moody and Rick Mayo, he co-authored Powered by Honda