Transforming Supply Chains: Realign your business to better serve customers in a disruptive world

To meet rising expectations and adapt in a volatile world, companies must reinvent their supply chains from the outside in. This book describes the path to a different paradigm, where tailored supply chains are used for in-built flexibility and adaptation, and internal capabilities and digital capabilities are aligned with customers and strategies. Case studies and prompts are included to help kick start the transformation journey.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 17 July 2019
Publisher: Pearson Education Limited

Customers have become increasingly demanding, and the operating environment has become more turbulent and complex. Mature companies wishing to survive and thrive in the coming decades must transform themselves to become flexible and market responsive. They need to reconsider their traditional supply chains and find ways to increase the clock speed of their operations and their decision-making without creating more complexity for their staff and partners.

But where to start this transformation journey? Most of the world's largest corporations have logistics networks and supply chains that have evolved over time, many based around systems that drive a 'one-size-fits-all philosophy, which does not fit anymore. And most have not kept up with the changing cadence of their markets.

This book describes the path to a different paradigm; where a set of tailored supply chains are used for built-in flexibility and adaptation as the world changes, and where internal capabilities and digital capabilities are consciously aligned with the customers and strategies they serve.

Transforming Supply Chains builds on John Gattornas seminal Dynamic Alignment framework; and he and his long-term collaborator Deborah Ellis review the analytics and decision-making tools needed to be effective in the digital age. Case Studies of organizations that excel using the 'outside-in paradigm that they describe are scattered throughout the book; as are a series of prompts to help 'kick start your thinking about your own transformation path.

Transforming Supply Chains is your guide to designing supply chains that fit, and a.

Weight: 428g
Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781292286846