Are you preparing to take the APICS CPIM Exam?  In Strategic Management of Resources you learn some fundamental techniques created by one of the world leading strategists Michael Porter.
  The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm.
  Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking concept of the value chain disaggregates a company into "activities," or the discrete functions or processes that represent the elemental building blocks of competitive advantage.