The Competitive Network

   

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"The Competitive Network" a report on research by Peter Bartram, Colin Coulson-Thomas and Lee Tate

Re-engineering of supply chains through the enabling technologies of electronic commerce. The COBRA re-engineering methodology has been further developed to provide a framework for the re-engineering of supply chains through the enabling technologies of electronic commerce. This has also been published, along with nine detailed case studies as "The Competitive Network" a report on research by Peter Bartram, Colin Coulson-Thomas and Lee Tate.

Contents

About the research team

Introduction

PART 1 : STRATEGIC OVERVIEW AND CASE STUDIES

1   Partners in corporate strategy: electronic commerce and business re-engineering

• One minute summary
• The next business frontier
• The elusive search for supply chain integration
• Transformation from market-place to market-space
• Electronic commerce: discovering a new role

Case study: Associated Independent Stores -- creating many-to-many trading
Case study: IBM -- building a learning supply chain

2   Developing supply chain partnerships

• One minute summary
• Current and future drivers of re-engineering
• Building competitive supply chains: a collaborative strategy

Case study: BUPA/PPP Joint EDI Health Network -- co-operating to compete
Case study: Electrical Appliance Service Agents Systems -- raising customer service

3   A new agenda for strategic supply chains

• One minute summary
• Three strategic issues in supply chain management

i Focus on the value contributed to a supply chain
Core competencies for world-class supply chains
The role outsourcing plays in world-class supply chains

ii Leverage human and knowledge assets rather than physical assets

iii Organise to be flexible and responsive to customers

Case study: Concentra Corporation -- creating a virtual company
Case study: Londis Holdings -- enabling a business strategy with electronic commerce

4   Re-engineering processes between organisations

• One minute summary
• The supply chain: a new re-engineering challenge
• Applying business process re-engineering to supply chains
• Three key issues for supply chain re-engineering
• Using a methodology in supply chain re-engineering

Case study: Motorola -- using electronic commerce to handle rapid growth

5   Electronic commerce: the great supply chain enabler

• One minute summary
• Finding the enabling power of electronic commerce
• Four ways to use the enabling power of electronic commerce

Case study: GKN Freight Services -- discovering win-win supply chain benefits
Case study: Jaguar Cars -- leveraging value from supply chain knowledge

6   Conclusions: building the competitive network

• One minute summary
• Learning from supply chain mentor companies

PART 2 : SUPPLY CHAIN RE-ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY

A methodology for using electronic commerce in supply chain re-engineering

Introduction

Stage 1: establishing the approach and goal setting
Stage 2: opportunity seeking
Stage 3: process analysis
Stage 4: process redesign
Stage 5: implementation of change
Stage 6: performance monitoring

PART 3 : RESOURCES

Appendix 1 Consultants

• Supply chain consultants
• Electronic commerce consultants
• Business process re-engineering consultants

Appendix 2 Other organisations

Appendix 3 Selected reading list

• Supply chains
• Electronic commerce
• Business process re-engineering

Appendix 4 Glossary of terms used in this report

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