GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS IN A GLOCAL WORLD: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 AND DIGITALISATION

Growing global trade flows and integration has led to continuous and accelerating changes to our global supply chains over the past decades. Recent macroeconomic events, new technological developments, and most notably Covid-19, are envisioned to push global supply chains in further transforming and adapting. How will companies look into issues of resilience, security, and digitalisation in their supply chains and operations?

Global Supply Chains in a Glocal World aims to answer these multimillion-dollar questions via a series of articles contributed by academics and senior management covering different industry sectors such as healthcare, food, e-commerce, textiles, mobility, and FMCG, as well as geographical, risk management, and technological perspectives. In taking such a unique approach to provide varied views of what has happened during the Covid years and what it means for the future, academics and businesses alike will find this book a valuable resource as they navigate their next steps in an increasingly turbulent world.

Puay Guan Goh is Associate Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, where he teaches supply chain management and technology innovation. He is the Academic Director of the multidisciplinary MSc in Industry 4.0. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of Switzerland-based Log-hub AG, and the Manufacturing Standards Committee of the Singapore Standards Council. He is the author of Supply Chain Management: A Concise Guide published by Pearson (1st ed. 2005, 2nd ed. 2015). He has contributed articles and interviews on Channel NewsAsia, Forbes, Yahoo, The New Paper, Lianhe Zaobao, and Supply Chain Management Review.

Prior to NUS, he held various management roles in Sembcorp Industries and Toll Global Logistics. As Vice President of Commercial and Business Development, he set up and concurrently served as General-Director of Sembcorp Development's warehouse property business in Vietnam. In 2012, he was awarded the Junior Chamber International's Top Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) Merit Award for Business and Entrepreneurship. During his management, Batamindo Shipping and Warehousing Pte. Ltd. was awarded the ASEAN Business Award for Growth (SME) by the ASEAN Business Advisory Council in 2013.

In addition to being an alumni of Stanford University, USA, he has also been featured by Stanford University Career Development Center as a Profile of Success in 2004. He was President of the Stanford Club of Singapore from 2014–2018, Honorary Treasurer at Mensa Singapore from 2011–2013, President of the Singapore Club in Seoul from 2005–2008, and is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Dr Mabel C Chou is Associate Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS) where she teaches supply chain management and operations management & logistics. She is Committee Chair for the Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and sits on the editorial board of Pacific Journal of Optimization. She was awarded Department Outstanding Educator Award (NUS) in 2006, and Faculty Outstanding Educator Award (NUS) in 2012. She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and an MSc in Mathematics, both from Northwestern University, USA.