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Chain Reaction
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Chain Reaction

How Today's Best Companies Manage Their Supply Chains for Superior Performance

Robert A. Malone
Kaplan Publishing, 2007

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7

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Robert Malone uses his deep knowledge of modern worldwide logistics to help you understand what has happened to your supply chain. He analyzes the issues that businesses face and uses corporate examples to illustrate his points. He presents the material within each chapter as a series of short, two or three paragraph articles. This contributes to a somewhat impressionistic style, but getAbstract finds that the overall effect is quite interesting and informative. If you need to get a handle on the modern supply chain and the logistics it entails, this is a useful take on the subject.

Take-Aways

  • Global competition requires low-cost, worldwide sourcing plus lean manufacturing, superb quality and on-time deliveries around the globe. In other words, superb logistics.
  • The Romans created enduring roads to send supplies to their army.
  • To build your business without the need for revolutionary innovation and its associated costs and risks, enhance and extend what you do well.

About the Author

__Robert A. Malone co-founded Variflex Corporation. Now editor for logistics at Forbes.com, he has written for logistics journals and consulted with many organizations about using technology to better deliver goods and services.

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