Supply Chain Disruption: Aligning Business Strategy and Supply Chain Tactics

  • 5h 11m
  • Steve O’Sullivan
  • Kogan Page
  • 2019

Disruptive technologies have the power to upend supply chains, adding uncertainty, cost, and complexity to any business. These technologies can also create competitive advantage, but only if organizations strategically build them into their supply chains. Supply Chain Disruption, with a foreword by John Gattorna, provides the vital knowledge that supply chain managers need in order to implement disruptive technologies strategically. This essential book avoids a one-size-fits-all approach and encourages the reader to consider customer needs first before aligning appropriate technologies with each supply chain application.

Supply Chain Disruption focuses on information systems, analysing how companies currently integrate and implement potentially disruptive technologies into their supply chain roadmaps. It presents new ways of planning more effectively and efficiently through the use of new tools and techniques, creating improvements in agility, customer service and cost. Online supporting resources include templates for metric-based process models focusing on the key enablers and inhibitors.

About the Author

Steve O'Sullivan is a supply chain and logistics specialist with extensive two-decade international experience in complex business-critical environments for firms across multiple industries, such as aviation and consumer electronics. As an academic scholar-practitioner, Steve consistently creates and implements superior process improvement solutions across the entire supply chain process, while supporting international management teams in meeting and exceeding established targets.

In this Book

  • Foreword
  • An Introduction to Supply Chain Disruption
  • Supply Chain Strategic Friction
  • Ad Omnia Paratus – Prepared for Anything
  • The Art of Responding to Disruption Through the Physical Supply Chain
  • The Challenges of Humanitarian Logistics
  • Corporate Supply Chain Disruption
  • China—Supply Chain Disruption in the Geographical Heart of Globalization
  • Engaging in the Process of Business to Supply Chain Strategic Alignment

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