Supply Chain Network Design

How to Create Resilient, Agile and Sustainable Supply Chains

Explore how to deliver a supply chain network design that integrates agility, resilience and sustainability and optimizes technological advancements with this practical guide.
EAN: 9781398614918
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x156
384 pages

About the book

The traditional linear supply chain is no longer fit for purpose, and organizations must redesign their supply chains to become more customer-driven, agile, resilient and sustainable.

Supply Chain Network Design
shows how to design intelligent, agile supply chain networks in the age of geopolitical disruptions, fast-paced technological innovation and drive for more sustainable business. It outlines how to incorporate international relations and a global perspective into supply chain planning and actions and how to embed ESG and circular economy goals. It surveys the rapidly evolving technology landscape and how it impacts some companies and provides a competitive advantage to others. It also explores how to harness technologies such as robotic process automation, AI and machine-driven intelligence and the evolution of forecasting to demand sensing to enhance network design.

Taking a global perspective, Supply Chain Network Design is supported by practical cases and examples and provides a consumer-driven lens that will help organizations evolve their networks from a traditional B2B to a B2B2C workflow. Covering both lessons learned and how to move forward, this will be an must-read for supply chain, logistics and distribution leaders, managers and analysts.

About the authors

Nick Vyas is Executive Director of USC Marshall School of Business's Center for Global Supply Chain Management. He is based in Los Angeles, CA.

Das Dasgupta is Chief Data Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi. He is based in Irvine, CA.

Greys Sošic is Chair and Professor of Data Sciences and Operations at USC Marshall School of Business. She is based in Los Angeles, CA.


With the recent disruptions that tested traditional supply chain strategies fresh in our rearview mirror, we can all benefit from a new, innovative approach to network design that supports supply chains that are resilient, agile, and sustainable. Supply Chain Network Design offers practitioners and academics alike the insight and tools they need to develop supply chain strategies that meet the risks and challenges of today's and tomorrow's global supply chain. This insight will help to inform and transform the global supply chain.

Dr Noel Hacegaba, Chief Operating Officer, Port of Long Beach