The Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management
- 1st Edition - November 17, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Michela Pellicelli
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 5 3 2 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 5 3 3 - 4
The Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management offers a roadmap to all areas of supply chain management, with the idea of ecosystem as a center of gravity. The book desc… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management offers a roadmap to all areas of supply chain management, with the idea of ecosystem as a center of gravity. The book describes the impact of Internet-driven global information and communication systems in enhancing supply chain management processes. It analyzes six building blocks of supply chain management, including consumer focus and demand, resource and capacity management, procurement and purchasing, inventory management, operation management, and distribution management. The book concludes by presenting the principal innovative solutions available now, or in the future, for managing and increasing the efficiency of supply chains.
As supply chains are evolving toward an ecosystem that incorporates a wide range of digital technologies such as the cloud, big data, the Industrial Internet of Services, 3D printing, augmented and virtual reality, blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and many more, this book is an ideal resource.
- Provides balanced, state-of-the-art coverage on emerging technological innovations and their applications
- Includes numerous case studies that offer different perspectives on the integration of technologies in the supply chain
- Describes the impact of Internet-driven global information and communication systems in enhancing supply chain management processes
Supply chain/transport professors, researchers, and students. Supply chain/transport managers, engineers, and consultants
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Why this book now
- What this book is about?
- Key definitions and events
- The structure of the book
- Part 1. Drivers and effects of digital transformation on the supply chain
- Chapter one. Toward a new way of thinking
- 1.1. Platforms and network effects
- 1.2. The evolution of digital transformation
- 1.3. Digital transformation is an everlasting changing strategy
- 1.4. The definition of “supply chain”
- 1.5. Supply Chain Management
- Part 2. Digital technology solutions for managing the supply chain
- Chapter Two. A long road to maximizing efficiency
- 2.1. The Digital Supply Network (DSN)
- 2.2. A digital thread
- 2.3. The rise of industry 4.0 and the DSN
- 2.4. Impacts of technology disruption
- 2.5. The DSN capabilities
- 2.6. Industry 4.0 or The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- 2.7. Industry 4.0 technologies: the main categorizations in the literature
- 2.8. Progress made possible by Industry 4.0
- 2.9. The road ahead
- 2.10. Industry 4.0 technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis
- Chapter three. Supply chain 4.0. rewriting the rules
- 3.1. Enabling technologies
- 3.2. Supply chain 4.0 and market-driven strategies
- 3.3. How the supply chain has been transformed
- 3.4. Key benefits of supply chain 4.0
- 3.5. Toward Smart manufacturing and Smart factory
- Chapter Four. The need for a different approach
- 4.1. Transportation evolution
- 4.2. Warehouse transformation
- 4.3. Warehouse robotics
- 4.4. Logistics
- 4.5. Procurement 4.0
- 4.6. The sourcing process
- 4.7. The purchasing process
- 4.8. Toward a new model of procurement
- Chapter five. Managing the supply chain: technologies for digitalization solutions
- 5.1. The irresistible march of technological disruption
- 5.2. Digital technologies are reshaping supply chains
- 5.3. Cloud computing
- 5.4. Big Data
- 5.5. Internet of Things (IoT)
- 5.6. Blockchain
- 5.7. Robotics
- 5.8. Additive Manufacturing and 3D printing
- 5.9. Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
- 5.10. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 5.11. Co-creation
- 5.12. Digital Value Chain (DVC)
- Part 3. Global supply chain and global strategies
- Chapter Six. Waves of disruption have undermined but not defeated globalization
- 6.1. The first waves of globalization: 1980's and 1990's
- 6.2. Offshoring has become a vital part of global strategies
- 6.3. The great variety of models
- 6.4. ‘Old' providers emerging as new competitors
- 6.5. The main technological disruptors
- 6.6. Managing a supply chain under uncertainty
- 6.7. Has COVID-19 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine brought down globalization?
- 6.8. Russia's invasion: a tipping point in globalization
- Part 4. The Effects on the Supply Chains of COVID-19 and the Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
- Chapter Seven. Never so much attention to the digital transformation of supply chains
- 7.1. Unexpected speed
- 7.2. COVID-19 rolls the dice again
- 7.3. Unprecedented in history
- 7.4. Running out of steam
- Chapter Eight. War in Europe: another blow to the global supply chains
- 8.1. Russia's invasion of Ukraine: another blow to the global supply chains
- 8.2. Lessons for business leaders
- 8.3. How to respond to war disruptions
- 8.4. Take a step back to go further on global supply chain rebound
- Part 5. How businesses reacted to disruptions of supply chains
- Chapter Nine. Business models at a crossroads: the post-crisis cleanup
- 9.1. The risks of supply chain disruptions
- 9.2. Be more ‘resilient’
- 9.3. Refitting the business
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 17, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 276
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323855327
- eBook ISBN: 9780323855334
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Michela Pellicelli
Michela Pellicelli is an Asociate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management. She has published in Sustainability, International Business Management, and the Journal of Strategic Marketing, among others.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, ItalyRead The Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management on ScienceDirect