Michael F. Strohmer – författare

Future-proof your firm’s supply chains with a renewed focus on resilienceIn Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for Leaders to Win in a Volatile World, a team of dedicated, veteran operations strategists delivers a practical and hands-on discussion of how to future-proof your company’s supply chains through a relentless focus on resilience. In the book, you’ll discover how to shift your firm’s emphasis from “low-cost” to “low volatility” as you protect your company against the supply and demand shocks associated pandemics, wars, labor disputes, and trade conflicts.You’ll also learn about: Real-world examples of companies realizing long-term competitive advantage by implementing the shifts advocated by the authorsWhy seeking to build mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with dependable suppliers is preferable to always choosing the cheapest optionHow a renewed focus on diversity and new ways of working can create resilient operations teams that pass on value to your customersAn effective and essential discussion of one of the most prominent challenges facing contemporary companies around the world, Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations is a need-to-read book for managers, executives, business leaders, entrepreneurs, operations and supply chain professionals, and anyone else with a stake in the smooth operation of their firm.

In the novel The CPO: Transforming Procurement in the Real World, we meet Thomas Sutter, a German-American living in Dusseldorf and working as a procurement manager for a major global automobile manufacturer, Autowerke.

There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier Relationship Management: How to Maximize Vendor Value and Opportunity changes all that. Containing the best and most innovative advice from the operations and procurement experts at consultant AT Kearney, this book shows that SRM is at root a strategic discussion requiring cross-functional interaction and internal alignment at the highest levels. It requires an honest appraisal of the value that suppliers now bring to your firm, as well as their potential value. It then requires a frank and constructive business-to-business dialogue about how to improve the relationship. When this happens, a company reaps myriad benefits, ranging from new opportunity to added value to competitive advantage—and, quite likely, to overall (and sometimes substantial) cost reductions. This book shows the most concrete methods you can use today to:Identify value-adding opportunities in the supply chainWork closely with suppliers to maximize the benefitsWork the "Critical Cluster" of suppliers, where the greatest opportunity for advantage liesReview suppliers to encourage constant gains in quality and costTurn your SRM strategy into a major competitive advantageSupplier Relationship Management introduces and explains the Supplier Interaction Model, a key tool that will help you get the most from your supplier relationships. It segments the supplier universe into nine categories, from those you want to run away from fast to those so good and so useful to your organization that it can make sense to invest in them directly. Numerous case studies show how to apply the principles to your situation. Supplier Relationship Management burns off the fog that has surrounded the procurement process for far too long. It is the definitive guide for business executives who want to get the maximum benefits from suppliers and gain very real advantages over competitors.

The bestselling Purchasing Chessboard® concept, used by hundreds of corporations worldwide to reduce costs and increase value with suppliers, is the topic of this successful professional book now published in its third edition.

Disruptive Procurement is a radical new approach to creating value and innovation by challenging the status quo in the entire product and service line. It requires going far beyond conventional desktop procurement to understand the value the company brings to its customers as well as the value that suppliers bring to the company.By combining knowledge of these two dimensions, companies become far more flexible and they move closer to disrupting the environment in ways that create value.  To move toward Disruptive Procurement, companies need a holistic view and a complete new set of capabilities for staff in marketing, sales, R&D, manufacturing, innovation, and, of course, procurement.This will only happen if procurement is fully backed by the Chief Executive Officer and companies embrace digital tools that will help make procurement slimmer and smarter.

Disruptive Procurement is a radical new approach to creating value and innovation by challenging the status quo in the entire product and service line. It requires going far beyond conventional desktop procurement to understand the value the company brings to its customers as well as the value that suppliers bring to the company.By combining knowledge of these two dimensions, companies become far more flexible and they move closer to disrupting the environment in ways that create value.  To move toward Disruptive Procurement, companies need a holistic view and a complete new set of capabilities for staff in marketing, sales, R&D, manufacturing, innovation, and, of course, procurement.This will only happen if procurement is fully backed by the Chief Executive Officer and companies embrace digital tools that will help make procurement slimmer and smarter.

In "Robuste Lieferketten in unsicheren Zeiten" zeigt ein Team engagierter, erfahrener Betriebsstrategen praxisnah auf, wie Sie die Lieferketten Ihres Unternehmens durch einen unerbittlichen Fokus auf Resilienz zukunftssicher machen können. In diesem Buch erfahren Sie anhand von 5 Geschäftsprinzipien, wie Sie den Schwerpunkt Ihres Unternehmens von "niedrigen Kosten" auf "geringe Volatilität" verlagern können, um Ihr Unternehmen vor Angebots- und Nachfrageschocks zu schützen, die mit Pandemien, Kriegen, Arbeitskämpfen und Handelskonflikten einhergehen.Außerdem erfahren Sie mehr über:- Beispiele aus der Praxis von Unternehmen, die durch die Umsetzung der von den Autoren empfohlenen Veränderungen langfristige Wettbewerbsvorteile erzielen.- Warum es besser ist, langfristige, für beide Seiten vorteilhafte Beziehungen zu zuverlässigen Lieferanten aufzubauen, als immer die billigste Option zu wählen.- Wie ein erneuter Fokus auf Vielfalt und neue Arbeitsweisen belastbare Betriebsteams schaffen kann, die Ihren Kunden einen Mehrwert bieten."Robuste Lieferketten in unsicheren Zeiten" ist ein Buch, das Manager, Führungskräfte, Geschäftsführer, Unternehmer, Fachleute aus den Bereichen Operations und Lieferketten und alle anderen, die an einem reibungslosen Betrieb ihres Unternehmens interessiert sind, unbedingt lesen sollten, da dies eine der größten Herausforderungen darstellt, mit denen sich moderne Unternehmen weltweit auseinandersetzen müssen.