Straight to the Bottom Line®
An Executive's Roadmap to World Class Supply Management

Robert A. Rudzki (Author), Douglas Smock (Author), Michael Katzorke (Author)

9781932159493

Hardback, published 30 October 2005

288 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.526 kg

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 Features:

• Provides a clear understanding of the performance improvement opportunities, and what is at stake if these opportunities are overlooked, written by and for senior corporate executives
• Outlines a powerful and logical approach for assessing the state-of-the-art in their organization
• Offers ways to estimate the specific opportunities related to implementing a change in strategy and practices
• Details a comprehensive framework for organizing the transformation plan, across multiple dimensions
• Gives advice on which areas to focus on first, in order to build and ensure success
• WAV 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