Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash

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Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash (The St. Lucie Series on Resource Management)

Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash (The St. Lucie Series on Resource Management)
By William T. Walker

Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2004-10-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1574443577
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781574443578
Binding: Hardcover

Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash applies five crucial business principles to solve network problems for geographically separated workers who must team together to deliver products and services. These five principles, Velocity, Variability, Vocalize, Visualize, and Value, simplify the design and operation of complex, real-world supply chain networks for broad use throughout the manufacturing and service sectors. Written by an accomplished practitioner in common sense language, this “how to” book provides a complete blueprint for transforming marginal business relationships into exceptionally competitive networks.

Summary: Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash
Rating: 5

This book provides a meaningful, comprehesive, and entertaining picture of the global supply chain. Through stories, Bill has effectively taken potentially dry material and brought it to life in a meaningful and helpful way. Additionally, it is a great source of reference in the research arena.

Jane Biddle
VP Manufacturing Research
Aberdeen Group

Summary: A different perspective on operating Supply Chains
Rating: 5

Supply Chain Architecture by William Walker is a different kind of book. It looks at how to make a Supply Chain Network effective by developing a high level conceptual principle, and, then drilling down to the practices that should be adopted to operationalize the principle.

Take an example of the Vocalize principle. This principle covers the synchronization of Supply with Demand. The book describes various techniques to improve this process including, how to the Push-Pull boundary is used in different manufacturing configurations, and, how operational control is established in various manufacturing systems such as Manufacturing Resource Planning, Vendor Management, Kanban and Synchronization.

The book invariably details how to optimize the technique in actual practice. It is written by a practitioner for practitioners

It is a book to be read and absorbed. I have found it very useful and have used sections of it in a Supply Chain course I teach at Polytechnic University in New York

Blair Williams
Industry Professor
Author of Manufacturing for Survival (Pearson 1997)

Summary: A rare, how-to and practical guide to optimized supply chain performance
Rating: 5

In a field crowded with literature this book is a rare find. A coherent model for the end-to-end supply chain network is presented, described by the information, material and cash flow processeses and the five principles of velocity, variability, vocalize, visualize and value.

The methodology presented is supremely practical – our organization has been using the five principles process to succesfully solve real life problems from partitioning the bill of materials and outsourcing to minimizing risk to supply and optimizing network inventory.

We are looking forward to our next projects focused on using this framework to integrate global supply chains in a highly competitive network with higher levels of profits, return on assets and cash generation

Summary: An Excellent Guide to Planning a Supply Chain
Rating: 5

“Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat … it is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.” Sun Tzu’s admonition applies to business campaigns as well as to military battles, and the Supply Chain professional seeking victory for the company and its operations develops a comprehensive plan for doing business battle. “Supply Chain Architecture: A Blueprint for Networking the Flow of Material, Information, and Cash” by William T. Walker is an indispensable tool for developing such a plan. This book takes what could otherwise be an overwhelming task, that of defining an effective Supply Chain network flow, and brings to it an organized, understandable, and all-inclusive approach.

“Supply Chain Architecture” is highly effective as a guide for approaching Supply Chain network development because the depth of the content is matched by the book’s very orderly approach in showing the Supply Chain professional how to proceed. Starting by drawing the overall Supply Chain map and defining a clear language for relating to a Supply Chain network, Walker lays out alternative Supply Chain strategies and the business and operational implications of each. Typical of the book, a wealth of detailed tables and figures provide specific guidance for this analysis process. Walker proceeds to explore the inter-company issues of collaboration and how to effectively build a Supply Chain network, and then addresses the critical issues in building such a network: the flow of information, tracking and measuring network performance, and the on-the-ground operation of the network. Walker rounds out the blueprint with a view from the financial perspective, showing the impact and opportunities that Supply Chain Architecture offers, together with a summarizing chapter and an Appendix that literally provides step-by-step instructions for this process. At every stage, Walker challenges us to move from conventional Supply Chain thinking to a broader-view, highly concise approach that focuses us on the objectives we want to accomplish.

While supplying a huge amount of hands-on material, Walker makes sure it is a nurturing river of information rather than a destructive tsunami of data by overlaying several storylines into the beginning and end of each chapter. These storylines follow “daily life” activities that illustrate key points in narrative format, and are a delightful way to maintain an overview understanding of the core concepts. This approach makes “Supply Chain Architecture” a complete package – the conceptual and the technical play off each other to complete the reader’s understanding of the process of architecting the Supply Chain network.

One can easily imagine Sun Tzu smiling approvingly at the “many calculations” that William Walker gives us as he prepares us for Supply Chain victory. Planning a Supply Chain network, like planning a military campaign, is neither simple nor easy, but with “Supply Chain Architecture” as the map the Supply Chain professional can move into the battle confidently and with the blueprint needed to achieve Supply Chain success.

Summary: Something new on SCM
Rating: 4

“Supply chain management” is becoming a meaningless cliche. This textbook spells out- significant (as opposed to occasional/nominal) trading partners, importance of cash flow & lead time- in standard APICS terminology. Introduces parameters for outsourcing manufacturing & logistics. Up-to-date, compared with many logistics tomes.

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