- For Dummies
Supply Chain Management for Dummies
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- Daniel Stanton
- For Dummies
- Paperback
- 9781394154562
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- -
- Business & Economics > Industrial Management
- English
Book Description
GET THE LOW DOWN ON SUPPLY CHAINS WITH DUMMIES
Supply Chain Management For Dummies 3rd Edition addresses the essential changes that have occurred in the industry since the second edition's publication in 2020. Learn the newest technology that enable success in the supply chain management world, optimize based on analytics and data, and deliver on your organization's promises. Dummies can take your supply chain management skills to the next level with step-by-step explanations, expert tips, and real-life examples.
UPDATES:
- Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Issues
- UN Sustainable Development Goals and UN Global Compact
- Circular economy (circular for supply chains is what Cloud is to software)
- Sustainable materials and energy sources (Natural Fiber Welding sidebar)
- Shorter supply chains. Re-shoring and near-shoring.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion in supply chains
- Risk Management, Disruptions, and Resilience
- New examples include Port delays, COVID disruptions, semiconductor chip shortages, and the invasion of Ukraine
- Strategies for increasing resilience such as improving visibility, strategically positioning inventory, multi-supplier sourcing strategies
- Aligning supply chain strategy with business strategy
- Digital Transformation in Supply Chains
- New examples of technologies and trends are changing supply chains (kiosks, cashier-less stores, expansion of e-commerce)
- Lots of updates to software companies due to rebranding and mergers and acquisitions (Everstream Analytics, Flexport, etc)
- Growth of venture-capital backed supply chain startups. (Project 44, Tive, Locus Robotics, Boston Dynamics, etc.)
- Greater emphasis on supply chain cyber security issues (Blume Global, Colonial Pipeline examples).
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