This definitive compass and roadmap to world class supply management will enable senior corporate executives to turn the enormous top-line and bottom-line potential of supply chain and procurement into reality. By following its straightforward principles, senior corporate executives can improve performance quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year. This guide also delineates best practices for procurement and supply chain professionals to help ensure success.

Key Features

• Presents a step-by-step roadmap for senior executives on how to implement a supply management transformation that quickly drives significant savings to the bottom line
• Provides executives the correct metrics for determining real cost savings
• Discusses how to optimize performance through rapidly improving software for supplier negotiations, spend analysis, and contract management
• Offers free downloadable resources such as a presentation detailing how modern supply management can improve ROIC and a lost opportunity calculator to quantify the impact of "maverick buying" - available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com