Book
Description
Ron Ireland was one of the leaders
in Wal-Mart’s effort to develop
its supply chain processes for collaborative
forecasting and replenishment execution
using retail links for communicating
point-of-sale, forecasts, and inventory
information to its suppliers. As
a result he helped pioneer the retail
industry standard called Collaborative
Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment
(CPFR). This collaborative process,
which involves sharing information
with supply chain partners in real-time,
enables substantially improved planning
and financial results. Using his
extensive knowledge and first-hand
experience, Ireland, with Colleen
Crum, demonstrates what is necessary
to achieve successful win-win trading
partner collaborations and describes
what companies give up when they
don’t collaborate.
Since
an effective supply chain collaboration
effort requires flexibility when
adapting to each partner’s
capabilities and the business environment,
this book presents a blueprint that
you can customize to fit your company’s
and your company’s trading
partners’ needs to achieve
success. Supply Chain Collaboration
shows you how to implement CPFR
and other best collaborative practices
quickly and successfully in almost
any organization. Wal-Mart, Procter
& Gamble and other highly successful
companies are reaping huge competitive
benefits from the CPFR process.
Learn from the "visionary pioneer"
of CPFR how your organization can
as well.
Key
Features:
• Delineates the steps for
developing and implementing a CPFR
process that can drive reductions
in inventory, logistics costs and
cost of goods sold, and increase
revenue, profits, and customer satisfaction
with minimized risk
• Describes how to effectively
integrate trading partner data into
the demand planning and sales and
operations planning processes and
the risks of not doing so
• Discusses how to assess
a potential trading partner’s
readiness, how to evaluate the effectiveness
and financial results of a trading
partner relationship, and how to
collaborate for continuous improvement
• WAV offers free downloadable
CPFR white papers, VICS CPFR roundtable
discussion slides, and a CPFR readiness
assessment grid — available
from the Web Added Value Download
Resource Center