Operations Excellence Is The Foundation For Building Competitive Advantages

A must read book!
This book is a treasure if one wants to improve operational excellence leading to increased product availability, sales, services, product quality, cash flow, and profit.
Stafford Petersen


Hands on Knowledge
With the authors’ hands-on experience, this book discusses how to become a best-in-class operation in execution excellence, sales and operation planning, warehouse management, production management, and procurement excellence.
Christopher D. Williams
Focus On Operations –They
Account For Two-Thirds Of
Company Costs!
On the “Best Operations Management Books of All Time,” and also nominated one of the “Best Operations Management Books to read in 2025” a list recommended by CNN, Forbes, and Inc, BookAuthority. Recommendations from Jeff Bezos, Robin Sloan, Nigel Mk Chanakira, Ron Shalit, Business Week, The New York Times, Financial Times, and 15 others. BookAuthority is the world’s leading site for book recommendations.
Throughout this book, we explain how all operations departments must harmonize with the whole process to achieve operations execution excellence
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Here are 10 things you’ll learn from this book

Best-in-class sales and operation planning techniques (S&OP).

A company’s major cost occurs in operations.

Arrangements to increase cash-flow.

Continuous improvement focuses.

Establishing industry-leading procurement systems through improved negotiation powers, supplier management, and quality control, among other focuses.

Best in class warehouse management.

Best in class production management through overall equipment effectiveness focuses (OEE)

How to design, control and manage the deployment planning.

How to reduce throughput time, optimize the cash-flow cycle and the credit and debit terms.

Establishment of a robust key performance indicator system.
…. and much more
Praise for Operations Execution
Great Value!
The book emphasizes that
effective sales and operations planning is fundamental to a business’s success. A unified
plan combines sales, services, marketing, finance, and
operations best practices to
build competitive advantages. Without well-developed and
unified sales and operation
planning, a company cannot
build effective sales cultures.
The book provides a
straightforward explanation of operations management.
Samuel Dias
Great book on Operations Execution Excellence
The book systematically
discusses the factors that help companies achieve best-in-
class performance in
operations execution
excellence, sales and operation planning, warehouse
management, production management, and
procurement excellence.
Beason Wright
Uncovers the True Value of Operations Execution
This book makes the reader
realize the true value of
operations execution
excellence.
Alan Meyer
The Best Read on Operations Management
There is no better book to
explain the importance of
operations execution
excellence than this one.
Courtney McCormick
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Valuable resource for professionals
This book offers a clear and systematic exploration of what truly drives outstanding performance in modern organizations. Rather than focusing on theory alone, it breaks down the essential components behind operational success into practical, well-defined areas: operations execution excellence, sales and operations planning, warehouse management, production management, and procurement excellence. Each of these disciplines is presented as a critical piece of a larger performance puzzle, helping readers understand how strong integration across functions leads to sustainable business results.
One of the book’s greatest strengths is its emphasis on building a culture of continuous improvement. The author makes a compelling case that long-term success is not achieved through one-time changes but through ongoing evaluation, learning, and refinement. This message is reinforced by a strong focus on setting measurable objectives, ensuring that performance improvement is not vague or abstract, but tracked with clear metrics and accountability.
In addition to strategy and mindset, the book delivers real-world, actionable guidance. Readers are shown how to identify inefficiencies, analyze performance gaps, and implement solutions that enhance productivity and reliability. The pragmatic tone makes the content especially useful for managers and leaders who are responsible for improving operational performance and driving results within their teams.
Overall, this book stands out as a valuable resource for professionals in operations, supply chain, and business leadership. Its structured approach, practical insights, and focus on continuous improvement make it both informative and applicable. Anyone looking to strengthen execution capability and achieve operational excellence will find this book well worth reading.
Invaluable Resource for Operational Teams
This book provides a clear and compelling explanation of operations management, emphasizing the importance of effective sales and operations planning. By integrating best practices from sales, services, marketing, finance, and operations, the book demonstrates how a unified plan can create sustainable competitive advantages. It emphasizes the need for well-defined, unified processes and planning to build a strong, long-term sales culture. This book is an invaluable resource for operational employees seeking to drive business growth and success.
Operational Excellence Made Simple
This book is packed with practical insights that can be applied to any operations department, no matter the size or industry. By putting these strategies into practice, you’ll attract the right talent, strengthen your team, and drive measurable results.
Competitive advantage-building playbook!
This book delivers a clear, no-nonsense guide to operations management—and why it’s the heartbeat of lasting business success. It champions effective sales and operations planning as a game-changer, uniting the strengths of sales, service, marketing, finance, and operations into one powerful strategy.
With well-defined, unified processes, a company can create a sustainable, high-performance sales culture that stands the test of time. For operational professionals, this isn’t just a book—it’s an invaluable playbook for building competitive advantage and driving real results.
A must read book!
This book reveals how to transform your operations and take them to the next level. It provides a step-by-step guide on reorganizing your business, ensuring that everyone is aligned with the same vision and values—key for building a strong, cohesive team.
With a clear and concise roadmap from concept to implementation, this book makes it easy to turn ideas into action. This book is a must-read if you’re looking for real value and actionable strategies.
Business is built on OE
I have read this book front to back. Operations execution excellence is the core of any business, and this book helped me understand why. I also understand how to apply this new knowledge to my own business. Regardless of what type of business it is, the approach works for you.
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The focus of this book is to provide the reader with concepts and approaches that facilitate “operations execution excellence.” It is alarming to witness how many companies do not focus on developing their operations strengths to their maximum extent as part of their overall sales and services system.
Operations make up the majority of the costs in sales and manufacturing companies –they account for two-thirds of company costs! But, more importantly, every dollar saved in operations is a dollar earned.
Throughout this book, we explain how all operations departments must harmonize with the whole process to achieve operations execution excellence.
The book emphasizes that the fundamental component of achieving operations execution excellence is developing unified planning that integrates sales, marketing, procurement, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, and finance to maximize consumer, customer, and enterprise benefits.
By incorporating hands-on experience, this book discusses how to improve operations execution, sales and operation planning, warehouse management, production management, and procurement.
This book emphasizes that operations execution excellence is the foundation for building competitive advantages. Thus, for any organization to achieve sustainable growth, operations execution excellence has to be in place.

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