Supply Chain Costing and Performance Management

<p><b>A&nbsp;&ldquo;how-to&rdquo;&nbsp;guide&nbsp;for supply chain professionals who need accurate cost&nbsp;information&nbsp;for end-to-end&nbsp;processes&nbsp;</b></p> <p>With&nbsp;the increasing pace of&nbsp;globalization,&nbsp;supply chain professionals find that they have less and less&nbsp;margin for error&nbsp;in their&nbsp;decisions&nbsp;making. Competition is getting more intense, and, unfortunately, CFOs and accountants do not currently provide supply chain managers with the information required to make better decisions.&nbsp;<i>Supply Chain Costing and Performance Management, 2nd Edition</i>,&nbsp;will show&nbsp;you&nbsp;(and the executives&nbsp;you&nbsp;report to) how to understand and apply various enterprise and corporate performance management (EPM/CPM) methods related to costs and profit margins and performance measurements.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>This book is a&nbsp;&ldquo;how-to&rdquo;&nbsp;guide to assist&nbsp;supply chain&nbsp;managers and employee teams to obtain interenterprise cost information on supply chain processes. It provides techniques for obtaining accurate cost and performance information on the activities performed within&nbsp;your&nbsp;firm and on activities performed by trading partners. The techniques and approaches&nbsp;in this&nbsp;book were developed from supply chain costing practices implemented by leading-edge firms.&nbsp;You will learn&nbsp;how&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;gain&nbsp;access to reasonably accurate costs and profit margins involved with suppliers, products, stock keeping units (SKUs), service-lines, channels, and customers. In addition,&nbsp;you&nbsp;will&nbsp;gain insight into the activity costs in end-to-end business processes,&nbsp;including the&nbsp;&ldquo;drivers&rdquo;&nbsp;for each type of cost.&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Learn how to access accurate cost and pricing information related to both your company and your trading partners&nbsp;</li> <li>Overcome siloed information by creating your own costing practices using proven methods drawn from leading firms&nbsp;</li> <li>Understand what drives activity costs for each&nbsp;step&nbsp;in&nbsp;end-to-end business processes&nbsp;</li> <li>Assess the performance of your costing activities with step-by-step measurement guidelines&nbsp;</li> <li>Make better decisions and improve performance and profitability with clearer, more transparent cost and price data&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>The information in this book will empower supply chain&nbsp;managers with&nbsp;the ability&nbsp;to make better decisions&nbsp;and&nbsp;improve&nbsp;their&nbsp;organizations&rsquo;&nbsp;performance and profitability.&nbsp;</p>