Lean Supply Chain: Managing the Challenge at Tesco

Tesco has built its business around supply chain excellence, creating a balanced system that supports suppliers' needs and customers' requirements. This has led to a resurgence in commercial fortunes and a rebuilding of trust in the brand. The Lean Supply Chain provides lessons for other businesses to place their supply chains at the heart of their competitive strategy.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 03 December 2018
Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Tesco has emerged as a dominant force in the UK market and a global retailer over the past two decades. The Lean Supply Chain delves into how Tesco has established its business around supply chain excellence. As a mega-retailer, Tesco has mastered the art of creating a balanced supply chain system that caters to both suppliers' needs and customers' demands. This approach, coupled with a commitment to sustainability, has helped rebuild trust in the Tesco brand and revive its commercial success. This fully revised edition of The Lean Supply Chain includes new chapters on Tesco's current strategy, brand trust rebuilding, and its CSR agenda. It explores the principles of lean thinking, customer loyalty, and simplicity that shaped Tesco's supply chain strategy and draws upon the authors' extensive knowledge of how the retailer has navigated challenges and market changes to offer valuable insights for other businesses, regardless of their size, seeking to prioritize their supply chains as a key competitive advantage.

Weight: 824g
Dimension: 242 x 165 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780749487799
Edition number: 2 Revised edition