SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT A LOGISTICS PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The preparation of the 11th edition of Supply Chain Management: A Logistics Perspective has focused intensively on addressing the enormity of change that has been impacting our global businesses and supply chains. The authors of the 11th edition feel that the past several years have elevated the utility of the term “disruptive innovation” to disruptive levels. Whether this refers to advances in information technology (e.g., cloud capabilities; software-as-a-service; Internet of Things; mobile capabilities; additive manufacturing; blockchain), operational innovations (e.g., drones, robots, autonomous vehicles) global economic and environmental factors, or new and more effective business and management strategies, the supply chain world is finding it necessary to develop new responses to issues like these on an almost daily basis. Also, the growing presence and impacts of the “Amazon effect” have challenged many types of organizations to go back to the drawing board to re-think and to re-conceptualize the purposes, structure, and functioning of their supply chains