Supply Chain Cost Control Using Activity-Based ManagementHaving an accurate assessment of company expenditures is a key to staying in business. Activity-based management (ABM) is the only system that offers the tools to correctly assess the outflow involved in a tightly knit supply chain and enables understanding not only of the total cost of ownership (TCO), but also how these costs should be allocated. |
Contents
Chapter 1 ActivityBased Management and Total Cost of Ownership An Overview | 1 |
Chapter 2 Major Trends in SupplyChain Innovations | 11 |
Chapter 3 Elemental Task Learning Curves in a Production Line | 23 |
Chapter 4 Offshoring Knowledge Work to Increase Shareholder Value | 35 |
Chapter 5 Integrated Total Cost of Ownership and ActivityBased Management Process Model | 55 |
Chapter 6 Methodology for Analysis | 79 |
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A.T. Kearney ABM application ABM to procured ABM usage acceleration principle activity-based costing Activity-Based Management analysis application of ABM application to internal application to procured balanced scorecard based on frequency Box plots company or business competitive component set components and services cost drivers cost of ownership cost of quality cycle Descriptive Statistics elemental task learning Ellram frequency of ABM Game Theory Infrequently Infrequently Infrequently Infrequently Never Never Infrequently or less internal processes last five long-term relationships Manufacturing $1-5B Never apply ABM Never Infrequently Sometimes Never Never Never Never Never Sometimes Number of Survey outsourcing procured component costs procured service costs products or services reduction in supply reduction of procured reported percent reduction Sometimes Never Never Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Stem & Leaf Stem width Stem-and-Leaf Plot Frequency strategies supply base supply chain Supply Chain Cost supply-chain administration costs survey respondents Table task learning curves TLCC total cost Win-Win Game