With a title like Supply Chain Management Best Practices,
there’s not much mystery in what this book is about.
Throughout its 16 chapters, this book will identify some
of the best supply chains in the world, describe in detail
what it means to have a “best-in-class” supply chain, and
offer suggestions—in the form of best practices—on how
to build a world-class supply chain.
This book is largely told through the experiences of
supply chain practitioners and experts. The companies and
the people referred to in this book are real, as are their
accomplishments (and, in some cases, their failures). What
sets this book apart from other supply chain books is that I
have taken a journalist’s approach to the subject, rather
than an academic’s or a consultant’s. As the editor-in-chief
of Logistics Today magazine (www.logisticstoday.com), the
leading supply chain publication in the field, I had access to
supply chain professionals at companies of all sizes, in
dozens of different industries. So in writing this book, I
have set out to tell the story of supply chain management
through the eyes of the people who know it best.