Managing Global Supply and Risk: Best Practices, Concepts, and Strategies by Rob

Managing Global Supply and Risk by Robert J. Trent, Llewellyn Roberts

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Description Blends three distinct but interrelated topics - international purchasing, global supply management, and global risk management - to present the critical differences between companies that pursue international purchasing and those that have evolved toward a more sophisticated global supply management model.

Publisher Description

Due to the profound growth in international trade, the need to pursue global supply and institute risk management practices has never been greater. The globalization of world markets has reconfigured supply networks, causing increasing complexities and challenges in sourcing and risk management. Managing Global Supply and Risk blends three distinct but interrelated topics—international purchasing, global supply management, and global risk management—to present the critical differences between companies that pursue international purchasing and those that have evolved toward a more sophisticated global supply management model. This book covers every aspect of global supply management and details what it takes to pursue supply management at the international level. Each chapter is loaded with critical concepts that supply managers must understand and includes company examples, cases, best practices, and strategies that offer prescriptions for success.Global supply management is a process that proactively integrates and coordinates common items and materials, as well as processes, designs, technologies, and suppliers across worldwide purchasing, engineering, and operating locations. It is a process that could very well provide your organization with its next quantum leap in performance.  Managing Global Supply and Risk: Best Practices, Concepts, and Strategies is a must read for every c-level executive and supply chain leader that wants to gain or maintain a competitive advantage during difficult economic periods.

Author Biography

Robert Trent, Ph.D., is the supply chain management program director, associate director of the Manufacturing Systems Engineering program, and George N. Beckwith professor of management at Lehigh University, where he teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels.  He holds a B.S. degree in materials logistics management from Michigan State University, an MBA from Wayne State University, and a Ph.D. in operations management from Michigan State University. This well known subject matter expert has authored four highly regarded books within the procurement and supply management field, several research projects published through the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies  (CAPS) and numerous articles published in more than a dozen professional and academic journals and magazines. Dr. Trent is an active member of the Institute for Supply Management, serving for many years as the Professional Development Director of the NAPM Lehigh Valley chapter and, at the national level, as a member of the ISM Educational Resources Committee.   Llewellyn Roberts is President and founder of L. Roberts & Associates Inc., a firm that has provided a wide range of professional consulting and management development services to many of the largest and most successful companies in the world over the past twenty years.  He is an industrial engineer, consultant and published author specializing in the fields of business performance improvement, procurement and strategic sourcing, and logistics and supply chain management. Mr. Roberts is a sought-after and frequent speaker at professional conferences and universities worldwide and previously conducted lectures for the Executive Masters in International Logistics program at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He has developed and delivered training to thousands of participants from hundreds of different companies on a wide variety of topics.  Amongst its various services, L. Roberts & Associates currently provides training in warehouse design and layout and warehouse management under license to Supply Chain Planning Limited, Cranfield University (UK).

Details ISBN 1604270144 ISBN-13 9781604270143 Title Managing Global Supply and Risk Author Robert J. Trent, Llewellyn Roberts Format Hardcover Year 2009 Pages 268 Publisher J Ross Publishing GE_Item_ID:136571178; About Us

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