Straight to the Bottom Line will enable senior corporate executives to turn the enormous top-line and bottom-line potential of supply chain and procurement into reality.Key Features--Provides a clear understanding of the performance improvement opportunities, and what is at stake if these opportunities are overlooked, written by and for senior corporate executives--Outlines a powerful and logical approach for assessing the state-of-the-art in their organization--Offers ways to estimate the specific opportunities related to implementing a change in strategy and practices--Details a comprehensive framework for organizing the transformation plan, across multiple dimensions--Gives advice on which areas to focus on first, in order to build and ensure success--WAV offers free downloadable resources such as a presentation detailing how modern supply management can improve ROIC and a lost opportunity calculator to quantify the impact of "maverick buying" — available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com