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If you have ever ordered a computer over
the Internet and been amazed that a product built to your
exact specifications could arrive at your door within days,
or if your business's competition is suddenly gaining share
by delivering custom-designed merchandise faster and more
reliably than you can, you need to read Value Nets.
Enlightened managers around the world are learning that
the supply chain can be a bountiful source of profitable
growth, increased market share, and shareholder value. Value
Nets: Breaking the Supply Chain to Unlock Hidden Profits
shows you how to release the value hidden in supply chain
operations through new digital networked solutions.
Value Nets introduces you to a new
form of business design built around superb supply chain
performance in the e-commerce world. This design enables
any company to do far more with the supply chain than simply
control costs. It provides a basis for true differentiation
in the marketplace and gives you the power to deliver first-rate
service and customized products to customers in ways that
delight them and keep them coming back for more.
Using numerous powerful case studies and
examples from companies that have adopted value net design
-- Gateway, Cisco Systems, Cemex, Biogen, Zara, and dozens
more -- the authors demonstrate how value nets bridge the
gap between the executive culture of strategy and business
reinvention and the operational world of procurement, manufacturing,
and logistics. They introduce the new concept of value nets
and offer compelling evidence of their outstanding results.
They also explain the five elements of value net creation,
supplying specific examples from companies that have built
value nets and showing how the new design helped these companies
achieve superior profitability and customer satisfaction.
David Bovet us a Vice President with
Mercer Management Consulting's Supply Chain Strategy Team.
He has directed consulting engagements for leading companies
in the high-tech, automotive, and consumer goods industries.
He is a well-known speaker on the subject of supply chain
and value nets.
Joseph Martha is a Vice President with
Mercer Management Consulting and leads Mercer's Supply Chain
Strategy Team. Martha has built Mercer's supply chain practice
into a market leader and is responsible for its application
by Mercer consultants worldwide. He helps clients in many
industries become more competitive.
As one of the world's premier corporate
strategy firms, Mercer Management Consulting helps leading
enterprises achieve sustained shareholder value growth through
the development and implementation of customer-focused business
designs. Mercer's thought leadership on the topic of value
growth is evident in four agenda-setting books published
in the past four years: Profit
Patterns, The
Profit Zone, Value
Migration, and Grow
to Be Great. The firm serves clients
from twenty offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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