Supply Chain Cost Management: The AIM & DRIVE® Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results

Preface

How many times have you wanted to take your company’s costs down by 5 percent, 10 percent, even 50 percent? Cost management is the key to profitability, and cost management is the key to successful supply networks. Take the money you save, and use it to build a new plant, or develop a new product, or make your stockholders rich! The point is, even if you don’t know how much your company is spending in purchased materials and labor and logistics—and believe it or not, most companies, even some Best Practice leaders, don’t—you will find significant savings, just exactly the way we did at Honda, TRW, Delphi, and John Deere, by managing on your operation’s true costs.

The real power of cost management is to know from the creation of a new ...