Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management has established itself, and large corporations as well as medium-sized enterprises have recognized that there are significant improvement potentials in modern value chains. They have embarked on the journey to leverage this potential. Therefore, they are intensifying their collaboration with suppliers, customers, service providers, and competitors.

In this book, Hartmut Werner first describes the fundamentals of Supply Chain Management. Subsequently, strategies for designing modern value chains are characterized. Based on this, tools that serve the concrete implementation of the previously discussed strategies are introduced. These considerations ultimately lead to a controlling of the Supply Chain. The book is application-oriented and relies on a multitude of examples from business practice.

The 7th edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New topics include cognitive Supply Chain (Internet of Things, Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning), Supply Chain 4.0, Smart Factory and Smart City, last mile, hub-and-spoke system, as well as Supply Chains in times of crisis.

The content

Fundamentals Influence of leadership concepts on the design of the Supply Chain Strategies of Supply Chain Management Tools of Supply Chain Management Controlling the Supply Chain

The author

Professor Dr. Hartmut Werner teaches logistics management and controlling (corporate planning) at the Wiesbaden Business School (Hochschule RheinMain).