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Technology Has Limits. Supply Chain Synthesis Has No Boundaries.

So your company has jumped on the e-business train, and youre confident that the opportunities offered by technology are endless. But technology is limited, and your B2B and B2C strategies will only succeed if you understand and implement Supply Chain Synthesis (SCS).

With SCS, there are new rules, no limits and no links. James A. Tompkins, Ph.D., a leading business consultant and speaker, asserts that SCS goes beyond Supply Chain Management (SCM) because it is a continuous improvement process of ensuring customer satisfaction from the original raw material provider to the ultimate, finished-product consumer. More simply put, SCS is the real B2B because it is conducting business with No Boundaries.

No Boundaries: Moving Beyond Supply Chain Management is the latest book from Tompkins, the president and founder of Tompkins Associates, Inc., an internationally recognized consulting firm specializing in Total Operations.

In this evolving age of e-, Fortune 500 companies seek the assistance of Tompkins in transforming their supply chains and business practices. Find out how to boost your customer satisfaction, strengthen your supply chain and rise to the top! Peppered with examples from Jims wealth of experience, No Boundaries is the book for any organization that wants to excel in B2B.

Rating : - Thought-leading ...
"No Boundaries" is both an excellent concept from which to start to understand the concept of a supply chain and a good, thought-provoking book. While much of the world is struggling to get their organization out of functional, vertical silos, i.e., to function horizontally from customer needs to product development to supply management then to demand management to customer satisfaction, Jim Tompkins has already gone one very big step further.

No Boundaries is an excellent conceptual framework for beginning to understand extending horizonal operations from your supplier's supplier to your customer's customer. It outlines the ideal as well as the issues which must be dealt with to get there. Six stages of supply chain evolution are defined (many firms have not yet completed step one), good both for now and the future. Highly recommended!