Straight to the Bottom Line: An Executive's Roadmap to World Class Supply Management
About this ebook
— Dick Conrad, Senior VP, Global Operations Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard
“I doubt that another book exists that explains more clearly the contribution that supply management can make to corporate success. But wait! This book also explains how to achieve that success.”
— Paul Novak, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Supply Management
“This book is truly unique because it succeeds in addressing the problems and concerns of C-class executives, procurement management and their teams.”
— Jack O’Connor, Publisher Emeritus, Purchasing Magazine
Straight to the Bottom Line will enable senior corporate executives to turn the enormous top-line and bottom-line potential of supply chain and procurement into reality.
Key FeaturesProvides a clear understanding of the performance improvement opportunities, and what is at stake if these opportunities are overlooked, written by and for senior corporate executivesOutlines a powerful and logical approach for assessing the state-of-the-art in their organizationOffers ways to estimate the specific opportunities related to implementing a change in strategy and practicesDetails a comprehensive framework for organizing the transformation plan, across multiple dimensionsGives advice on which areas to focus on first, in order to build and ensure successWAV offers free downloadable resources such as a presentation detailing how modern supply management can improve ROIC and a lost opportunity calculator to quantify the impact of "maverick buying" — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com
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About the author
Robert Rudzki currently serves as President and CEO of Greybeard Advisors LLC, a leading advisory firm in procurement transformation, strategic sourcing and supply chain management. Previously, Robert served as Senior Vice President, Materials Management and Chief Procurement Officer for Bayer Corporation. In this capacity, he oversaw supply chain and procurement activities in the NAFTA Region for Bayer and led a nationally recognized transformation effort. He has been a frequent speaker at professional conferences and associations, and is a visiting lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Business.
Doug Smock was the former Editor in Chief of Purchasing Magazine. Under his leadership, Purchasing Magazine received five national awards for editorial excellence from the American Society of Business Press Editors. No other publication in this field has ever won even one of these awards. During his career, he also served as Chief Editor of Plastics World and Associate Publisher of Modern Mold and Tooling. He founded and produced the Urethanes Report and High Tech Molding newsletters and has won or supervised staffs that earned three Jesse Neal awards one of the most prized awards in the industry that recognizes editorial excellence in independent business publications.
Mike Katzorke currently serves as Vice President Supply Chain Management with Smiths Aerospace. Mike is a business process improvement professional with more than 20 years of leadership experience in operations, materials, manufacturing, quality, systems, and strategic supply chain management. Prior to joining Smiths in December 2003, he was with Cessna Aircraft Company as Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management. He has participated and led in the application of Malcolm Baldrige, Lean, and Six Sigma tools in integrated improvement processes at three Fortune 100 companies.
Shelley Stewart, Jr. is Vice President of Supply Chain at Tyco, where he is responsible for $15 billion in spending and leads cross divisional sourcing teams in an effort to reduce procurement costs throughout Tyco by $1 billion by 2006. Shelley is also responsible for promoting best practices across the company's supply chain organization. Prior to joining Tyco, Shelley was Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Management at Invensys plc, headquartered in London. He is currently a member of the Conference Boards Supply Chain Council and sits on the visiting Board of Directors at Howard University's School of Business.
