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