Supply Chain Game Changers, The

The Supply Chain Game Changers brings together advanced supply chain practices that yield significant, enduring business advantage. It reflects extensive collaboration between industry supply chain pioneers and The University of Tennessee Global Supply Chain Institute (GSCI), one of the world's leading sources of best-practice knowledge for global supply chain management. Building on a series of cutting-edge white papers that have emerged from GSCI's deep academic-industry interactions, it identifies forward-looking practices that go far beyond the past decade's work on collaboration and integration, offering new opportunities for financial and operational success and business differentiation. GSCI's world-class team of authors and consultants cover all this, and more: Ten challenging but exceptionally valuable techniques for achieving a world-class supply chain Why disconnections between purchasing and logistics are more costly than you realize, and how to overcome the surprisingly complex challenge of integrating them How to systematically manage the multiple threats to supply chain continuity presented by growing complexity How to apply the EPIC framework to manage globalized supply chains more effectively How to overcome the supply chain management talent crisis, and develop and retain future-focused industry leaders How to conduct effective logistics in the urbanized environment How to achieve breakthrough transportation performance