Strategic Planning for Dynamic Supply Chains: Preparing for Uncertainty Using Scenarios
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| Management number | 201819141 | Release Date | 2025/10/08 | List Price | $14.88 | Model Number | 201819141 | ||
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This book provides a strategic decision-making process (scenario planning) to help managers build supply chain infrastructures that can adapt to uncertain shifts in the business environment. It explains how companies can monitor their business environments to decide when to adapt their supply chain strategies and assets and is applicable globally.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 13 April 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
This comprehensive book offers a strategic decision-making process, known as scenario planning, to assist managers in constructing resilient supply chain infrastructures capable of adapting to unpredictable changes in the business environment. The authors meticulously detail the step-by-step approach for developing and implementing scenarios for strategic planning within organizations assuming three distinct roles in supply chains. Through the use of three illustrative cases, accompanied by insights from the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, this primer elucidates how companies can effectively monitor their business environments to determine the appropriate timing for adapting their supply chain strategies and assets.
The insights and lessons derived from this book are universally applicable across diverse economic contexts, including first-world free-market economies, emerging countries, and poorer nations, as well as those where government intervention plays a significant role in economic activity. Companies seeking to evaluate the multitude of factors influencing their supply chains and utilize this information to develop actionable strategic plans will find great value in this resource. It provides practical guidance on building adaptable and agile supply chains, emphasizing the importance of long-term investments within organizations.
By leveraging the power of scenario planning, companies can proactively navigate the ever-evolving business landscape, seize opportunities, and mitigate risks, ensuring their long-term sustainability and competitiveness.
Weight: 402g
Dimension: 156 x 233 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030918125
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022
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