Business Process Management Applied: Creating the Value Managed Enterprise

by Charles Poirier, Ian W. Walker

Overview

Acquire the roadmap for achieving success that relates specific process improvements to bottom-line profit growth. Business Process Management Applied: Creating the Value Managed Enterprise illustrates how process improvement can add value for firms of any size in any industry and the method for tracking those savings to financial statements, using a proven maturity model and a SCOR® model. It features a guiding framework and a presentation of the underlying architecture, including the basic elements of optimizing the extended enterprise, applying business process management (BPM) tools and techniques, and bringing increased value to all constituents of the networked enterprise — especially the end consumer. Business Process Management Applied is the only text that easily relates supply chain and BPM thinking into layman's terms. Businesses around the world are discovering the improvements possible through a focus on the key process steps contained in an end-to-end supply chain, generating five to eight points of new profit to the bottom line by creating a truly linked and optimized intelligent business network that delivers greater value to the organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932159332
Publisher:	Ross, J. Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/01/2005
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Charles C. Poirier, of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), is a widely respected expert and best-selling author of numerous books including The Networked Supply Chain and RFID and Supply Chain. Ian Walker, Associate Director of CSC Consulting (UK), is a recognized expert at solving complex problems in supply chain management. Ian specializes in supply chain strategy, the application of leading-edge thinking, and the use of information technology to support business processes across extended enterprises.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	About the Authors	xv
	About APICS	xvii
	Web Added Value	xix
Chapter 1	The Road to the Value-Managed Enterprise	1
Chapter 2	Business Process Management as the Enabling Ingredient	33
Chapter 3	The Process-Based Profit and Loss Statement and Balance Sheet	55
Chapter 4	Getting Beyond the Supply Chain Roadblocks	79
Chapter 5	Moving Effectively to Advanced Levels of Progress	101
Chapter 6	Achieving Dominance at the Higher Levels of Progress	119
Chapter 7	Aspirations and Realities of Level 5	155
Chapter 8	Creating the Intelligent Value Network: A Blueprint for Level 5	173
Chapter 9	Using Process Simulation to Minimize the Risk	189
Chapter 10	Steps Forward	209
	Bibliography	227
	Index	229