Dr. Trent presents a framework for achieving sustainable competitive advantages in price and cost, quality, cycle time, technology, flexibility, and customer responsiveness through progressive strategy supply management leadership.

This is a complete and easy-to-understand approach to successfully implementing Lean principles. The text also provides a wide range of tools, techniques, and examples to support your systematic and continous Lean journey.

This work focuses on three distinct but related topics - international purchasing, global supply management, and global risk management - to provide readers with comprehensive coverage of every aspect of global supply management.

In this follow-up to the bestseller "Straight to the Bottom Line," the authors and their panel of distinguished contributors provide a proven transformation model, and outline the critical success factor leading a company to the next level in procurement practices and performance, to further improve bottom line results.

With the fall of trade barriers, global competition and company shareholder demands have become more intense, causing business leaders to seek further value generation within their supply chains and to begin focusing more on the financial side. The cost cutting and efficiency improvements skills and accomplishments of supply chain professionals to help obtain a competitive advantage for their organizations, are quickly becoming insufficient. There is a growing need for supply chain professionals who act, think, and talk like financial managers. Designed for self-learning, training and...

Competing in an Era of Rapid Change and Disruption.