《物流与供应链管理》读书笔记英文版.docxVIP

《物流与供应链管理》(LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT) Capsule summary of the book： The world changes unpredictably, which is dependent on the quick transformation of supply chain to adapt to the variational circumstances? This book focuses tightly on those variations mentioned above, emphasizing the problems that appear when enterprises attach importanee to complicated management, as well as when forecast-driven business model transforms into demand?driven business model. Also, this book elaborates how to gives enterprises dominating and competitive superiority with effective logistics and supply chain management. Chapterl Logistics, the supply chain and competitive strategy Supply chain management is a wider concept than logistics One goal of supply chain management might be to reduce or eliminate the buffers of inventory that exist between organizations in a chain through the sharing of information on demand and current stock levels. This is the concept of zCo-Managed Inventory (CMI). The focus of supply chai n man agement is upon the man ageme nt of relati on ships in order to achieve a more profitable outcome for all parties in the chain. This brings with it some significant challenges since there may be occasions when the narrow self-interest of one party has to be subsumed for the ben efit of the chai n as a whole ? Competitive advantage At its most elementai, commercial success derives from either a cost advantage or a value advantage or, ideally, both. It is as simple as that-the most profitable competitor in any industry sector tends to be the lowest cost producer or the supplier providing a product with the greatest perceived d iff ere ntiated values ? A useful way of examining the available options is to present them as a simple matrix. Service leader Cost and service leader Commodity market Cost leader Value advantage Cost advantage To summarize, those organizations that will be the leaders in the markets of the future will be those that have sought and a