Digital Supply Networks: Transform Your Supply Chain and Gain Competitive Advantage with Disruptive Technology and Reimagined Processes, 1st Edition PDF

Customers today have become used to a practically frictionless shopping experience and almost immediate satisfaction.

Failure to embrace and leverage disruptive technology has ruined many former market leaders. Conversely, those that have embraced and leveraged digital transformation to create customer value are leading the pack.

Driven by game-changing technologies, the new wave of industrial and economic progress is challenging the assumptions, limitations, and mental models of traditional supply chain management–and Digital Supply Networks provides everything you need to capitalize on it.

This groundbreaking guide provides the information and insights you need to create unprecedented value for your company, customers, employees, and society. It covers the entire gamut of the impact disruptive technology is having on supply chain management processes and practices, providing deep dives into:

• Big data and data analytics

• Machine learning, AI, robotics, and blockchain

• Synchronized planning and product development

• Intelligent supply, smart manufacturing, and asset management

• Connected customer and dynamic fulfillment

• Workforce, skill changes, and social impact

• A transformation playbook and use cases

With Digital Supply Networks, you have everything you need to effectively transition from a chain-based approach to a dynamic-network approach. By reimagining how to organize and run the value chain, transforming existing processes, and strategically combining new breeds of digital technologies, you'll unlock the potential for extraordinary value creation and create an unbeatable competitive edge.

Authors: Amit Sinha, Dr. Ednilson Bernardes, Rafael Calderon, Dr. Thorsten Wuest