Bookshelf: Start Pulling Your Chain! Leading Responsive Supply Chain Transformation
As the title suggests, this book examines the shift manufacturers have taken from the traditional "push" model that anticipates consumer wants, to the "pull" model that responds to actual consumer orders. It takes as its premise that disruptive technologies -- in particular, digitizing (the transformation of organizations to digital enterprises) -- are changing the very nature of supply chains. "Digitizing," the authors write, "requires conceptualizing and implementing new and innovative business operating arrangements that consistently meet and exceed customer expectations."
Given the authors' extensive supply chain backgrounds (Bowersox is dean emeritus at Michigan State University while
LaHowchic led the supply chain efforts at the Limited before striking out on his own as a consultant), it's not surprising that they offer up a new supply chain model, accompanied by a new acronym: the EERS model (effectiveness, efficiency, relevancy and sustainability). Taken together, the four components offer a way of measuring value performance.
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During his career Dave Blanchard has led the editorial management of many of Endeavor Business Media's best-known brands, including IndustryWeek, EHS Today, Material Handling & Logistics, Logistics Today, Supply Chain Technology News, and Business Finance. He also serves as senior content director of the annual Safety Leadership Conference. With over 30 years of B2B media experience, Dave literally wrote the book on supply chain management, Supply Chain Management Best Practices (John Wiley & Sons, 2010), which has been translated into several languages and is currently in its second edition. He is a frequent speaker and moderator at major trade shows and conferences, and has won numerous awards for writing and editing. He is a voting member of the jury of the Logistics Hall of Fame, and is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.