Reinvent your supply chain from the outside in - leverage customer
insight, heuristics and digital tools to meet rising expectations and
adapt in a volatile world.
Customers have become increasingly demanding, and the operating
environment has become more turbulent and complex. Mature companies
wishing to survive and thrive in the coming decades must transform
themselves to become flexible and market responsive. They need to
reconsider their traditional supply chains and find ways to increase the
clockspeed of their operation and their decision making without creating
more complexity for their staff and partners.
But where to start this transformation journey? Most of the world's
largest corporations have logistics networks and supply chains that have
evolved over time, many based around systems that drive a
'one-size-fits-all' philosophy, which does not fit anymore. And most
have not kept up with the changing cadence of their markets.
This book describes the path to a different paradigm; where a set of
tailored supply chains are used for in-built flexibility and adaption as
the world changes, and where internal capabilities and digital
capabilities are consciously aligned with the customers and strategies
they serve.
Transforming Supply Chains builds on John Gattorna's seminal Dynamic
Alignment framework; and he and his long-term collaborator Deborah Ellis
review the analytics and decision-making tools needed to be effective in
the digital age. Case Studies of organisations that excel using the
'outside-in' paradigm that they describe are scattered throughout the
book; as are a series of prompts to help 'kick start your thinking'
about your own transformation path.
Transforming Supply Chains is your guide to designing supply chains
that fit, and adapt, and bring competitive advantage - whatever your
business and whoever your customers.
