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| | Product Details | | Paperback: | 211 pages | | Publisher: | Harvard Business Press | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2006 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1422102793 | | Product Width: | 1.37 centimeters | | Product Height: | 2.06 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.01 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.1 inches | | Package Width: | 5.4 inches | | Package Height: | 0.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management Nov 06, 2006
By James William Martin
"Author"
I thought the book presented several interesting examples through eight papers covering various supply chain topics. Several of the papers have appendices with very useful information. This is a good book to take on a plane and read on one or two flights. But, subsequent research would be required to obtain the details necessary to actually implement the concepts.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Great to generate strategies Mar 12, 2009
By Benjamin J Quirt
The book gives good strategies, which the reader can find more literature if they would like to pursue. If you are looking for a quick read to stimulate ideas, choose this book. If you are seasoned in modern supply chain strategies, you may want to find something with a little more meat.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent, but a bit repetetive Dec 21, 2009
By Jan Husdal
The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series, as the "Paperback" in the name implies, are not written for academics and researchers like me, but for the professional manager seeking hands-on real-life executive perspectives and solutions.
To me, the first article on why so many partnerships fail, and the article about Zara's legendarily agile supply chain, along with the final chapter on aligning incentives and collectively sharing risks and rewards are the best parts of this book.
A whole three articles on Toyota? I think that's pushing the envelope a bit. While those are good and valid examples of excellent supply chain management, for a paperback handbook like this, more variety should have been sought. Just my two cents. But perhaps, there are no better examples? That may very well be...
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Insightful & Relevant - You'll love it Nov 22, 2010
By Arun Kumar
An excellent collection of eight articles on Supply Chain Management published in the Harvard Business Review during 2003-04. While they are indeed dated, it is clear that they remain as relevant today as they were six years ago. After all, supply chain maturity - as a concept - remains a distant dream even in today's world.
The first two articles in this collection outline the importance of building collaborative partnerships with your suppliers, and use case studies from Wendy's and Honda Motor. The next article features a holistic approach undertaken by Zara - the much discussed fashion clothier from Spain - towards supply chain operations and supply chain costs.
The construct and inter-relatedness of agility, alignment and adaptability within a supply chain framework are well argued in the 'Triple-A Supply Chain' while the challenges of aligning incentives across the chain are well-fleshed in another piece.
My icing on the cake? Two articles on Toyota Production Systems show once and for all why replicating these principles is such a tall ask. Toyota, after all, has been a beacon of production excellence, and has freely shared its practices over the years. Yet other than Toyota Motor and its suppliers, no other organization till today has even come close to replicating their world-class manufacturing processes. This article explains why. [To those who may want to question Toyota's vaunted processes in the light of its recent vehicle recalls, I would argue that these incidents would, in all likelihood, turn out to be an issue of non-adherence & non-conformity to the very production systems it pioneered. Let us all wait for the results of the investigation to come out].
All in all, the 'Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management' is an insightful & stimulating compendium that will hold your interest and evince a deep appreciation of such an important topic.
5 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Great Read... Jun 22, 2007
By Joseph E. Farrington
"Chiefjoe"
I'm a 25 year Supply-Chain Manager in the USAF. I enjoyed reading this and relating to the changes in mind-sets in supply chain management. Logistics, Supply-Chain and Distribution managers have contributed to companies and the militaries success's or failure's...
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