Moving beyond the hype, The Impact of AI in Supply Management explains how advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI can be responsibly integrated into procurement's strategy, operating model, and culture. With a strong emphasis on trust, governance, and explainability, this book shows how AI becomes a structural capability-not a ......
Transforming your procurement and supply management operations requires more than just implementing new technology; it demands a strategic approach to ensure sustainable success. It also requires a look at the history of these transformations for insight into what went wrong and what can be done better. Written by an expert with over two dozen ......
Understanding the evolving nature of cybersecurity threats has never been more important in a world increasingly reliant on digital technology. The Comprehensive Guide to Cybersecurity's Most Infamous Hacks offers readers a guided journey through the history of cyberattacks, examining key incidents that have defined and shaped modern ......
This important book details sustainability challenges facing our global society in the 21st century, and makes a well-supported business case for sustainable product development. Its holistic approach to product innovation and commercialization represents a radical departure from the norm. It delineates why human well-being must become the ......
Best Practices, Tools, and Applications for Improved Performance
Global competition and stakeholder demands are causing business leaders to seek greater value from their supply chains, and practitioners who think and act more like financial managers. Designed for self-learning, training, and course instruction, this book shows how to apply financial concepts, tools, and techniques to the primary activities of ......
Although currently not widely used, sulfur construction materials can offer improvements over more traditional materials, especially in specific applications. Sulfur construction materials include sulfur concrete and sulfur-extended asphalt pavements as well as pre-cast concrete components, extrusions, and cast-in-place forms. This one-of-a-kind ......
Competing in an Era of Rapid Change and Disruption
In his 2007 best-selling book, Strategic Supply Management, Robert Trent presented concepts, processes, tools, best practices, and a framework for creating a supply management organization that would provide a reliable source of supply and competitive advantage. This book introduces a new set of essential supply management concepts, strategies, ......
Dr. Trent presents a framework for achieving sustainable competitive advantages in price and cost, quality, cycle time, technology, flexibility, and customer responsiveness through progressive strategy supply management leadership.
History confirms that the odds are very slim for any organization to survive more than a few decades, including many of those revered in other books for their current success. "Beat the Odds" evolved from a study of a broad pool of companies across a wide spectrum of performance over an extended period of time. It clearly illustrates why great ......
