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

Acknowledgments

In September 1983, when I first came to the United States from India, had anyone told me that I would be writing books and going around the world teaching courses in Supply Chain Management, I would have fallen off my chair laughing. I was a Chartered Accountant, the British equivalent of a Certified Public Accountant, with a law degree who had come to the United States to do an MBA at the University of San Diego. I hoped to learn more about international business, finance, and marketing and then go back to rejoin the family business. All that changed when I met Professor David Burt in a marketing class in 1984. Dr. Burt had just released a book called Proactive Procurement and he described to me, the eternal bean counter, how ...