Supply Chain Management - Fundamentals, Design, Operations [repost]

Learn how to design, plan, manage, and control the end-to-end global supply chain flow using best tools and practices.

In today's marketplace, competition is stiff and businesses are often forced to constantly introduce new products to survive. As a result, customers face virtually limitless choice, and their expectations in terms of quality, price, features, and availability are extremely high. This constant demand for new innovations leads to shortened product life cycles and greater market volatility. And added to the mix is the fact that developing markets now represent an increasing portion of total revenues from certain products. Companies can no longer simply focus on making their goods available to North America, and developed Europe and Asia.

To remain competitive, it's often necessary to implement a supply chain that can quickly and efficiently distribute the custom product versions these markets need, to countries worldwide. To continue to be successful, your business needs to develop the ability to offer new products on a regular basis. At the same time, you need to be able to phase out older goods without significant inventory write-offs. In a marketplace that's under constant pressure from slowing growth rates, margin pressure, reduced capital, and increased shareholder demands, it's more important than ever that you learn to maximize your company's working capital, and reduce spending in your supply chain operations.