- Offers a practical and actionable guide to supply chain reconfiguration, covering its strategic, planning, design, tactical and operational bases
- Provides practical supply chain improvement frameworks and roadmaps such as the triple triangle, the doughnut supply chain, the strategy-driven sustainable supply chain design and level 5 maturity business planning processes
- Explores how organizations can embed sustainability into their supply chains, how sustainability links to the trade-offs in sustainability and how that links to the strategic value proposition
- Features real-life examples and case studies in every chapter, bringing industry needs, challenges and innovations to vivid life
- Explores how organizations can close the gap between the supply chain capabilities they have and the capabilities they need
Rethinking Supply Chain
Build a Strategy-Driven, Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain
Understand how to upgrade your supply chain to perform well in complex and volatile markets with this guide covering the strategic, design, operational and tactical bases of supply chain reconfiguration.
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EAN: 9781398615984
Edition: 1
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Format: 234x156
344 pages
About the book
Rethinking Supply Chain outlines how organizations can close the gap between the supply chain capabilities they have and the supply chain capabilities they want.
The supply chains built pre-covid are no longer suitable in the current volatile business environment. Rethinking Supply Chain explores why and how organizations can upgrade their supply chains to level 5 maturity, enhancing them to be more sustainable, strategy-driven and resilient.
It outlines the dangers of using outdated supply chain practices, sharing what goes wrong when organizations run level 5 complexity and variability with a level 1 capability. It shows how organizations can improve their strategic planning, supply chain design, sales and operations planning and business planning processes to respond to new dynamic levels of variability and complexity. It is supported by practical frameworks and roadmaps.
This book outlines why supply chain reconfiguration is needed, how to define a business case for change and the steps needed to drive effective transformation. Rethinking Supply Chain also explores how to integrate sustainability into the heart of supply chain design and operations and examines the trade-offs organizations must navigate, depending on whether they wish to be at par, differentiate or dominate on sustainability drivers.
About the authors
Bram DeSmet is the CEO of Solventure where he helps global production and retail organizations in the domain of Strategy, Supply Chain and Operations. He is an Adjunct Professor in Operations & Supply Chain Management at Vlerick Business School, Belgium and a visiting Professor at Peking University, China. He is the author of Supply Chain Strategy and Financial Metrics and The Strategy-Driven Supply Chain, both published by Kogan Page, and is based in Deinze, Belgium.
Bram DeSmet has done it again! In Rethinking Supply Chain, he creates highly needed clarity by unravelling relevant phenomena at play in the supply chain field. DeSmet builds on the strong foundations of his earlier concepts like the Supply Chain Triangle, adding the urgent topics of resilience and sustainability to the supply chain equation. There is plenty of food for thought here for business leaders and for the wider supply chain community. Highly recommended reading.
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