Build Your Playbook for Managing Supply Chain Transactions: WITH DESKTOP TOOLS REFERENCES AND SAMPLE FORMS

About this book

BUILD EVALUATE OR REDESIGN YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSACTIONS USING THE PLAYBOOK APPROACHIn PLAYBOOK the authors apply their decades of experience with procurement supply chains contract management and risk mitigation to provide a well-defined methodology for safely and effectively entering into and managing supply chain transactions from cradle to grave.There is often a gap between the theory of supply chain management and its actual application in a contracting or commercial context. In PLAYBOOK the authors bridge that gap and provide a clear process for engaging in sound supply chain transactions in a manner best suited to each organizations unique needs. PLAYBOOK offers a disciplined 49 step pathway for building or improving an organizations supply chain transactions while managing risk and upholding the integrity of the contractual relationship. How well those transactions are entered into as well as managed is a critical but often overlooked risk management function.As so aptly stated in the Foreword written by Dr. Darren Prokop Professor of Logistics at the College of Business and Public Policy University of Alaska Anchorage:Humbert and Mastice understand that supply and demand chains are not just linkages through which inputs and finished goods move to their ultimate customer; rather they are means by which people meet negotiate and contract with each other.PLAYBOOK identifies and explains 49 steps that an organization can follow either as a model or to modify its own supply chain transaction processes. By using or adapting the PLAYBOOK steps an organization can build or improve its own Playbook unique to itself but based on sound protocols. PLAYBOOK also creates the opportunity to position the organization for consistency efficiency risk avoidance and improvement in todays highly competitive ever-changing global supply chain environment. Once an organization institutes a Playbook it can not only adjust to change but also anticipate adapt and take advantage of change while carefully managing the specter haunting every transaction namely: RISK.OTHER BOOKS BY THE AUTHORSContract and Risk Management for Supply Chain Management Professionals ISBN 10: 061595678; ISBN 13:9780615956718; Library of Congress Control No: 2014901576 available through Amazon.com. Model Contract Terms and Conditions with Annotations and Case Summaries ISBN 10: 0692272089; ISBN 13:9780692272084; Library of Congress Control No: 2014914436 available through Amazon.com.